House Majority Floor Leader Steven Rudy Presented with 2025 Kentucky Chamber MVP Award

House Majority Floor Leader Steven Rudy was presented the Kentucky Chamber MVP Award on December 17 by Kentucky Chamber leaders.   

Leader Rudy was among a select group of legislators who “went to bat” for Kentucky business during the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly by taking action to strengthen business, improve competitiveness, and ensure growth.

Recipients of the Kentucky Chamber MVP Award show strong leadership for the business community by sponsoring or carrying Chamber priority legislation to final passage, showing leadership on passage of critical legislation to improve Kentucky, or by taking hard votes in defense of business.

During the 2025 session, Leader Rudy provided leadership by presiding over the flow of important pro-growth legislation through the committee process and during floor proceedings. He was also the primary sponsor of House Bill 15, which allows 15-year-olds to apply for a driver’s permit to receive their intermediate license earlier at 16, a vital workforce development reform. As a member of House leadership, he also played an essential role in key tax reform legislation and in reducing the personal income tax for Kentuckians.

“Leader Rudy has been a consistent champion for Kentucky’s business community,” said Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Ashli Watts. “His leadership and commitment to pro-growth policy have helped move Kentucky forward and strengthened the Commonwealth’s ability to compete and grow.”

The 2025 General Assembly advanced many top priorities of the Kentucky business community, and the pro-growth policies that passed saved Kentucky businesses an estimated $1.084 billion, or $629 for each employer in the Commonwealth.

While monitoring the progress of bills that create a better business climate and advance the Commonwealth, the Chamber tracks how each legislator votes on these bills. The Chamber’s MVP Award recipients displayed more than just a business-friendly voting record, but also went out of their way, and at times across party lines, to support or oppose an issue critical to the business climate in Kentucky.

Learn more about business issues during the 2025 Kentucky General Assembly in the Kentucky Chamber’s “Results for Business” publication.