FRANKFORT — The Kentucky League of Cities has asked to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Kentucky’s new pension law, citing concern that recent developments in the case could jeopardize another new law that gave local governments relief from ballooning pension costs.

A hearing on the Lexington-based group’s concern is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday in Franklin Circuit Court.

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ruled last week that the pension law, Senate Bill 151, is unconstitutional because the legislature’s speedy process in passing it did not give the public a chance to participate.

Gov. Matt Bevin and other Republicans contend the law that provides pension relief to local governments, House Bill 362, is now in jeopardy because the legislature approved it in a similar fashion.