Kentucky plans to step up outreach to cover uninsured low-income children on the state's KCHIP plan, Gov. Steve Beshear has announced, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. One simple step: Allow parents to mail in an application instead of having to come to a state social service office in person. The application will be available on the governor's web site, among other places.

Beshear called it "shameful and shortsighted" that as many as 90,000 children in Kentucky have no health insurance. About two-thirds of them may qualify for the children's health insurance program, which currently covers about 55,000 kids.

KCHIP provides coverage for children in families who earn up to 200 percent of the level or about $42,000 a year for a family for four.

UPDATED APRIL 4 After two nights of contacting gatherers and reading initiatives from all over the country (AND SOME EXCELLENT CORRECTIONS ON ARKANSAS AND MICHIGAN FROM Ballotpedia), here's my report on what's "on the street" and circulating in this great democratic land of ours. Please let me know if you think I'm missing important measures. For a more progressive take and focus, you can look at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center's issues map.

In blockbuster democracy, when one says that a measure is "on the street," he or she means that the measure is being circulated by signature gatherers.

Here's some new stuff on the street. An anti-abortion initiative in Missouri. A measure to expand access to children's health insurance in Montana