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State Senator, 4th District
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Robert M. "Robby" Mills

Candidate for State Senator, 4th District

RepublicanIncumbent

Background

Occupation
State senator; small business owner
Lives in
Henderson

State senator for District 4 (Henderson, Hopkins, Union and Webster counties) since 2019 and Senate Majority Caucus Chair; he served in the Kentucky House in 2017–18. A small business owner, he was a Henderson city commissioner from 1998 to 2016.

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Documented positions

Housing

  • Sponsored bill letting localities create housing infrastructure districts.In office

    SB 9 (2026) would let local governments issue bonds and levy special assessments to pay for infrastructure in new residential districts. A conference committee report was filed on the last day of the session.

    2026 Regular Session SB 9: AN ACT relating to housing districts.

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

    “establish the process for a local government to establish a residential infrastructure development district”
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Roads & infrastructure

  • Sponsored law giving the state energy planning commission independence.In office

    SB 100 (2026) attaches the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission (EPIC) to UK's Center for Applied Energy Research while giving it its own staff, accounts and procurement. The governor vetoed it; the General Assembly overrode the veto (Acts Ch. 157).

    2026 Regular Session SB 100: AN ACT relating to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and declaring an emergency.

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

    “provide for the administrative attachment of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission (EPIC) to the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research”
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Health & human services

All sources (13)

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