Representative, Kentucky State House of Representatives, District 16, 2016-present

Candidate, Kentucky State House of Representatives, District 16, 2024, 2026

Co-Chair, 2026-2028 Budget Preparation and Submission Subcommittee

Chair, Appropriations and Revenue Committee

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Protection, Tourism, and Energy

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Economic Development, Tourism,and Environmental Protection

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Education

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government, Finance, Personnel & Public Retirement

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Family Services

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Family Services

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice and Judiciary

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice, Public Safety, and Judiciary

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Personnel, Public Retirement, and Finance

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education and Workforce Development

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation

Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Transportation

Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue

Member, Joint Committee on Government Contract Review

Member, Joint Committee on Judiciary

Member, Joint Committee on Medicaid Oversight and Advisory

Member, Judiciary Committee

Member, Public Pension Oversight Board

Member, Subcommittee on Capital Projects and Bond Oversight

Former Member, Agriculture Committee, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Economic Development and Workforce Investment Committee, Kentucky State House of Representatives

Former Member, Elections, Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, Kentucky State House of Representatives

Former Member, House Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice, Public Safety, and Judiciary, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Economic Development and Workforce Investment, Kentucky State House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on State Government, Kentucky State House of Representatives

Former Chair, Judiciary Committee, Kentucky State House of Representatives

Attorney at Law, Jason Kelly Petrie, Attorney at Law, 1998-present

Former Law Clerk, Barkan & Barkan

Assistance Prosecutor/Victim's Advocate, Commonwealth Attorney for Logan and Todd Counties, 1998-1999

Law Clerk, Judge Tyler L. Gill, 1998

Member, Dripping Spring Baptist Church

Member, Elkton Baptist Church

Priority Issues:

1st - Budget and overall financial condition of the Commonwealth and its individual citizens; 2nd - Protection of an individual's rights - especially right to life, to exercise religious beliefs and bear arms; 3rd - improving high school education and access to college; 4th - reducing the size of government through efficiency and utilization of the private sector

Spouse's Occupation:

Registered Nurse at Logan Memorial Hospital