 At Monday's SOAR Innovation Summit in Pikeville, business leaders and elected officials talked to the crowd about challenges they faced and how they've overcome them. And State Representative Leslie Combs was one of those speakers. I'm like a proud mama. It's like I had this child and raised it now and put it out in the world. And that would be the P3 legislation. After failing to pass in three previous legislative sessions, Representative Combs finally saw her public-private partnership legislation, also known as P3, signed into law this April. P3 is a financing tool by which you can take major infrastructure projects that are needed. Okay, you combine those with the people who can help design and create those projects with the financing agencies out there in the world that have the megabucks to come in and help us do some major projects. And even though it took longer than she wanted to pass, looking back at the changes it went through, she says now she's thankful. Yes, we failed three years in the fourth year, we passed it, but sometimes that's a good thing because each year we improved the legislation and we got it better. In fact, Representative Combs' P3 legislation is now getting national attention. The P3 legislation in Kentucky is being touted across the country as the most comprehensive and what I said just a second ago, the most transparent because it protects all the individuals involved in the equation. And now she says local governments across eastern Kentucky are once again hopeful. And then all of a sudden you have something they couldn't otherwise have any other way on their own. But together they can have more than they need and they can take care of the next generation. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shannon Deskins.