FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 1, 2025) — Senate Majority Floor Leader Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, has been honored by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce as a 2025 MVP for his key role in advancing pro-business legislation during the 2025 Legislative Session of the Kentucky General Assembly.
In his inaugural year as Senate majority floor leader, Wise effectively guided significant legislation through the Senate, including measures aimed at enhancing Kentucky’s economic competitiveness and workforce development. He presided over the flow of important legislation through the committee process and during Senate floor proceedings.
Among the most consequential legislation was authorization of an additional reduction in the personal income tax rate, which will foster a more favorable business climate and provide relief to hardworking Kentuckians. As a result of House Bill 1, working Kentuckians personal income tax will decrease from 4 percent to 3.5 percent in January. It will leave approximately $718 million in the pockets of hard-working Kentuckians and consumers.
Additionally, Wise’s leadership helped advance legislation to establish the Kentucky Film Office to grow the state’s creative economy (Senate Bill 1), strengthen protections for critical infrastructure like broadband and power systems and also addressing copper theft challenges across the commonwealth (Senate Bill 64), and crack down on unemployment fraud to safeguard taxpayer dollars (Senate Bill 162).
“I’m honored to receive this recognition from the Kentucky Chamber,” said Wise. “It reflects the legislature’s commitment to policies that promote economic growth and opportunity for all Kentuckians. These policies maintain the trajectory the General Assembly has put Kentucky on since at least 2017, and remain a blueprint to our continued economic success.”
Find more information on bills supporting Kentucky’s business community in the chamber’s ‘Results for Business 2025’ report here.
Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, represents the 16th Senate District, including Adair, Allen, Metcalfe, Monroe, and Taylor Counties and eastern Warren County. Wise serves as Senate majority floor leader. He is a member of the Senate Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor; Education; and Families and Children. As part of Senate leadership, Wise also serves on the Legislative Research Commission, the Rules Committee, and the Committee on Committees. He co-chaired the Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force during the 2024 Interim.
Please visit Legislature.ky.gov for more information on Senate Majority Caucus members and the recently concluded 2025 Legislative Session, including committees, membership, legislation, and more.
Live legislative coverage is available at KET.org/legislature and via the Legislative Research Commission YouTube channel.
Access archived footage of legislative meetings and floor proceedings at ket.org/legislature/archives.
(Dustin R. Isaacs – Office of Senate Majority Floor Leader Max Wise)