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State Senator, 6th District
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Lindsey Tichenor

Candidate for State Senator, 6th District

RepublicanIncumbent

Background

Occupation
State senator; Realtor
Lives in
Smithfield
Campaign website
tichenorforkentucky.com

State senator for District 6 (Oldham and Trimble counties and part of Jefferson County) since 2023 and vice chair of the Senate Education Committee. A Realtor and former sales executive, she was a missionary in the Dominican Republic from 2009 to 2013.

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Documented positions

Taxes & budget

Education

  • Proposes limiting elementary digital instruction to 45 minutes daily.

    Her campaign site names reducing classroom screen time as a second-term goal; her SB 318 (2026) would have set the limit for kindergarten through grade 5 and did not advance.

    Tichenor for Kentucky | Kentucky State Senator Lindsey Tichenor

    Campaign website · Tichenor for State Senate · tichenorforkentucky.com

    “working towards reducing screen time instruction in the classroom”
    2026 Regular Session SB 318: AN ACT relating to digital instruction.

    Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov

    “restrict digital instruction time for students in kindergarten to grade 5 to 45 minutes per student per day”
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  • Supports school choice and parents' primacy in education.

    Tichenor for Kentucky | Kentucky State Senator Lindsey Tichenor

    Campaign website · Tichenor for State Senate · tichenorforkentucky.com

    “Also a vocal advocate for school choice, Lindsey believes parents should be respected as the primary guide in their children's education”
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  • Sponsored law requiring traceable school-student electronic communication.In office

    SB 181 (2025) requires districts to designate traceable systems as the exclusive channel for employees and volunteers to message students, with parental-consent exceptions. Signed by the governor April 1, 2025 (Acts Ch. 149).

    2025 Regular Session SB 181: AN ACT relating to children.

    Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov

    “directs each local board of education to designate one or more programs or applications as a traceable communication system”
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Environment & parks

  • Sponsored bill requiring decommissioning plans for farmland data centers.In office

    SB 319 (2026) would have required a surety bond or similar security and applied only to data centers built on agricultural land; it did not advance. Her campaign site lists "Data Center Guardrails" among her second-term issues.

    2026 Regular Session SB 319: AN ACT relating to data centers.

    Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov

    “require a data center owner to file a decommissioning plan with the Energy and Environment Cabinet prior to operating the data center”
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Other issues in this race

Other candidates in this race addressed these topics. We found no documented position from Lindsey Tichenor on them.

  • Public safetyNo documented position found.
  • Economy & jobsNo documented position found.
  • Health & human servicesNo documented position found.

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