James Allen Tipton
State representative; farmer and realtor · Taylorsville
The gist
- Sponsored banning three-cueing methods in school reading instruction.In office
- Sponsored abolishing Kentucky's death penalty.In office
- Sponsored raising the homestead exemption to $100,000.In office
In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.
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Sponsored banning three-cueing methods in school reading instruction.
Rep. James Tipton: sponsored bills (an asterisk marks primary sponsorship), Kentucky General AssemblyGovernment record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov
House Bill 253 (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov
“require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum and interventions that do not use a three-cueing system”
Sponsored abolishing Kentucky's death penalty.
Rep. James Tipton: sponsored bills (an asterisk marks primary sponsorship), Kentucky General AssemblyGovernment record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov
House Bill 588 (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov
“to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death”
Sponsored raising the homestead exemption to $100,000.
Rep. James Tipton: sponsored bills (an asterisk marks primary sponsorship), Kentucky General AssemblyGovernment record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov
House Bill 100 (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.Government record · Kentucky Legislative Research Commission · apps.legislature.ky.gov
“to increase the homestead exemption to $100,000; require the homestead exemption amount to be indexed every year”