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HB 269 (BR 516) - G. Stumbo, H. Moberly, J. Barrows, J. Callahan, L. Clark, J. Richards
AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing financing for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
The State/Executive Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $18,526,179,516 in fiscal year 2002-03 and $17,705,769,941 in fiscal year 2003-04, as follows:
Government Operations
2002-03 $634,050,800
2003-04 $604,494,500
Economic Development
2002-03 $19,923,900
2003-04 $22,487,100
Education
2002-03 $3,363,383,700
2003-04 $3,455,185,600
Education, Arts, and Humanities
2002-03 $230,504,900
2003-04 $247,202,100
Cabinet for Families and Children
2002-03 $987,471,500
2003-04 $997,884,100
Finance and Administration
2002-03 $433,988,400
2003-04 $431,809,900
Cabinet for Health Services
2002-03 $4,094,443,500
2003-04 $4,079,480,800
Justice Cabinet
2002-03 $637,495,700
2003-04 $656,130,700
Labor Cabinet
2002-03 $304,395,400
2003-04 $307,360,700
Natural Resource and Environmental Protection
2002-03 $172,458,000
2003-04 $181,585,400
Personnel Cabinet
2002-03 $39,019,600
2003-04 $41,328,600
Postsecondary Education
2002-03 $3,335,818,500
2003-04 $3,481,263,600
Public Protection and Regulation
2002-03 $184,879,900
2003-04 $180,303,800
Revenue
2002-03 $105,114,900
2003-04 $103,285,600
Tourism Development
2002-03 $165,570,000
2003-04 $170,063,000
Transportation
2002-03 $1,694,332,200
2003-04 $1,721,861,700
Workforce Development
2002-03 $844,964,200
2003-04 $743,393,400;
Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows:
Capital Projects
2002-03 $1,277,256,216
2003-04 $285,555,441;
provide for allocations of the Local Government Economic Development Fund; direct that appropriations for existing line-item capital construction projects expire on June 30, 2002, except under specified conditions; prohibit the sale of permanent bonds to finance certain bond projects before January 1, 2003; permit the lapse of General Fund appropriated debt service under certain conditions; allow funding of capital projects from specified funding sources; direct use of investment income from bond proceeds and the Technology Trust Fund; authorize an Agency Bond Pool totaling $31,300,000 under specified conditions and uses; provide for the Research Challenge Trust Fund and the Regional University Excellence Trust Fund; extend the matching requirement for the Capital Renewal and Maintenance Pool to June 30, 2004; direct the use and issuance of economic development bonds; provide appropriation and reporting requirements for specified capital projects; appropriate funds for the Energy Efficiency in State Government Building Revolving Loan Fund; redirect funds previously provided for the Red Fox golf course; reauthorize and reallocate $2,000,000 authorized by the 2000 General Assembly for Aquaculture Infrastructure Components; provide for the recording, reporting, allotment, and expenditure of appropriated funds; provide for the deposit of Restricted Funds and Federal Funds; prohibit the transfer of funds between budget units unless specifically authorized and upon review and determination by the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; prohibit the expansion of an appropriation from any fund source over the sum specified until the agency has submitted required documentation to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue for review and action under KRS 48.630; require the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to make decisions concerning questions relating to interpretations of any appropriation; require the Governor's Office for Policy and Management to prepare, within 60 days after adjournment of the 2003 General Assembly, a final budget document based on the proposed State/Executive Branch Budget, the statutory budget memorandum, other acts that contain appropriation provisions as enacted by the 2003 General Assembly, and other supporting documentation and legislative records as considered by the 2002 General Assembly and the 2003 General Assembly; require the State Budget Director to monitor and report on the financial condition of the Commonwealth pursuant to KRS 48.400; authorize the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to establish a formula to prorate certain administrative costs; require Road Fund resources to be utilized to meet the lease-rental payments of the Kentucky Turnpike Authority for Resource Recovery Road projects; direct that confirmation or ratification of executive orders must be confirmed or ratified in an Act of the 2002 Regular Session of the General Assembly or another Act of the 2003 Regular Session of the General Assembly; specify that the employer contribution for KERS includes the revenues received from the Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield demutualization agreement and cannot exceed 3.76 percent for nonhazardous duty employees, 17.6 percent for hazardous duty employees, and 17.37 percent for State Police for the period July 1, 2002, through June 30, 2003, and 5.89 percent for nonhazardous duty employees, 18.84 percent for hazardous duty employees, and 21.58 percent for State Police for the period July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004; direct the Finance and Administration Cabinet, in conjunction with the Consensus Forecasting Group, to provide a budget planning report by August 15, 2003; direct the Office of State Budget Director to provide estimates relating to the General Fund and Road Fund and loss of revenues effected by tax expenditures; require that the first $6,000,000 of unclaimed lottery prize money be retained by the Kentucky Lottery Corporation for specified purposes and that amounts in excess of $6,000,000 be transferred to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund in each fiscal year; specify the funding and uses of the Technology Trust Fund; confirm and adopt General Fund Budget Reduction Orders No. 01-01 and 01-02 for FY 2000-01, General Fund Budget Reduction Orders No. 02-01 and 02-02 for FY 2001-02, General Fund Budget Reduction Orders No. 02-03 and 02-04 for FY 2002-03, Road Fund Budget Reduction Orders No. 01-01 and 01-02 for FY 2000-01, and Road Fund Budget Reduction Orders No. 02-01 and 02-02 for FY 2001-02; provide a tax credit for horse racetracks; waive sovereign immunity for motor vehicles covered under government agencies; authorize cities of the first class and the county containing that city to create a joint Parks and Recreation Department; require that funds remaining in flexible spending accounts of local school district employees for calendar years 2002 and 2003 be transferred to the General Fund; provide a tax exemption for commercial printers; require that $1,400,000 of lottery revenues in each year of the biennium be retained in the General Fund; limit the total number of filled permanent positions within the Executive Branch to the number authorized in the Act; provide a 2.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment in each fiscal year for each eligible state employee on their anniversary date; provide for identification and filling of positions not funded within the Act; provide for funds transfers to the General Fund totaling $194,837,000 in FY 2002-03, and $83,079,600 in FY 2003-04; provide for a General Fund Budget Reduction Plan, a Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan, and a Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; provide conditions, directives, and mandates for implementation of the budget plan; provide for a General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; and provide for identification and appropriation of Phase I Master Settlement Tobacco Settlement funds totaling $125,600,000 in FY 2002-03 and $109,100,000 in FY 2003-04.
HB 269 - AMENDMENTS
HCS (1) - The State/Executive Branch Budget: retain the provisions of the original bill with the following changes: appropriate from the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $18,702,547,416 in fiscal year 2002-03 and $17,653,520,267 in fiscal year 2003-04, as follows:
Government Operations
2002-03 $617,077,300
2003-04 $580,935,500
Economic Development
2002-03 $19,923,900
2003-04 $21,683,800
Education
2002-03 $3,362,620,800
2003-04 $3,458,734,800
Education, Arts, and Humanities
2002-03 $228,033,400
2003-04 $241,267,300
Cabinet for Families and Children
2002-03 $991,297,900
2003-04 $1,007,684,100
Finance and Administration
2002-03 $429,382,300
2003-04 $426,044,400
Cabinet for Health Services
2002-03 $4,094,443,500
2003-04 $4,092,443,300
Justice Cabinet
2002-03 $632,516,400
2003-04 $648,615,100
Labor Cabinet
2002-03 $304,395,400
2003-04 $307,360,700
Natural Resource and Environmental Protection
2002-03 $170,974,600
2003-04 $176,464,200
Personnel Cabinet
2002-03 $37,181,900
2003-04 $52,730,900
Postsecondary Education
2002-03 $3,310,954,700
2003-04 $3,430,302,800
Public Protection and Regulation
2002-03 $184,279,200
2003-04 $179,219,600
Revenue
2002-03 $103,350,700
2003-04 $103,285,600
Tourism Development
2002-03 $166,751,100
2003-04 $168,088,600
Transportation
2002-03 $1,712,922,300
2003-04 $1,725,853,900
Workforce Development
2002-03 $844,434,500
2003-04 $741,927,000
Budget Reserve Trust Fund
2002-03 $5,087,400
2003-04 $10,000,000;
Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows:
Capital Projects
2002-03 $1,486,985,816
2003-04 $280,943,667;
appropriate state matching funds in fiscal year 2002-2003 for implementation of the Help America Vote Act; require transfer of unexpended revenue receipts in excess of official revenue estimates to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; retain tobacco settlement payments in excess of appropriated amount in the General Fund; impose various restrictions on uses of unclassified personnel, personal service contracts, state leasing, state vehicles, travel expenditures, new equipment and furniture purchases, and discretionary purchases;
require that all lottery revenues in each year of the biennium be retained in the General Fund; provide a $1,080 cost-of-living adjustment in fiscal year 2003-2004 for each eligible state employee on their anniversary date and for certified staff of local school boards; prescribe conditions for and implementation of an employee furlough program; for calendar year 2003, permit local school board to levy a real property tax of up to four percent over the amount produced at the compensating rate; prohibit a member of the Kentucky Board of Education from serving as a professional elementary or secondary educator; permit publication options for school districts financial statements; permit school districts to employ a Director of Pupil Personnel; permit delaying of textbook adoption; permit school districts to carry forward up to ten percent of unexpended state grant funds to fiscal year 2003-2004; require funds received from disposal of surplus property at the Kentucky School for the Deaf and the Kentucky School for the Blind to be retained in a restricted account for the schools' use; provide for reinstatement of escrowed offers of assistance; prohibit forfeiture of accumulated credit; permit a local board of education to commit an equivalent tax rate up to five cents in addition to other taxes levied for debt service, new facilities, or major renovations to existing school facilities; provide contingent funding for expansion of the Parole Board; provide for a county jail per diem of $24.60; prohibit early release of state felons; specify that no funds are provided for educational services for state inmates; make various language changes regarding highway projects; provide for funds transfers to the General Fund totaling $313,845,200 in fiscal year 2002-03, and $83,227,400 in fiscal year 2003-04; and provide for identification and appropriation of Phase I Master Settlement Tobacco Settlement funds totaling $125,407,000 in fiscal year 2002-03 and $109,100,000 in fiscal year 2003-04.
HCS (2/Analysis) - Retain provisions of HB 269/HCS but delete debt service funding for bond issuance to complete the Rupp Arena Renovation project.
HCA (1, H. Moberly) - Replace language in Part IX, Governor's Office for Technology, related to directives for a feasibility study on the Electronic Health Network.
HCA (2, H. Moberly) - Transfer unclaimed lottery prize funds totaling $3,500,000 to the General Fund and provide any unclaimed lottery prize funds in excess of $6,500,000 to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
HCA (3, H. Moberly) - Make technical corrections.
HCA (4, H. Moberly) - Transfer unclaimed lottery prize funds totaling $3,500,000 to the General Fund and provide any unclaimed lottery prize funds in excess of $6,500,000 to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
HCA (5, H. Moberly) - Replace language in Part IX, Governor's Office for Technology, related to directives for a feasibility study on the Electronic Health Network.
HCA (6, H. Moberly) - Make technical corrections.
HFA (1, S. Riggs) - Provide debt service funds to support bond funds in the amount of $15,000,000 to support renovation of Rupp Arena.
HFA (2, J. Jenkins) - Exempt a school district with a ratified negotiated salary schedule for certified personnel from the requirement to provide a cost-of-living adjustment of $1,080 if the contract cost-of-living adjustment at least equals that amount.
HFA (3, P. Bather) - Prohibit the Cabinet for Health Services from limiting eligibility for the Nursing Facility Level of Care and Home and Community-Based Waiver and Adult Day Care Programs.
HFA (4, P. Bather) - Permit the additional funding for 250 Supports for Community Living slots in fiscal year 2003-2004 to also be used for any other home and community-based waiver program with Medicaid Benefits.
HFA (5, P. Bather) - Permit the additional funding for 250 Supports for Community Living slots in fiscal year 2003-2004 to also be used for any other home and community-based waiver program with Medicaid Benefits.
HFA (6, P. Bather) - Deduct university average appropriation decrease of 2.6% rather than 3% produced by the formula model for Kentucky State University for the purpose of insuring an equitable deduction among the postsecondary education institutions.
HFA (7, J. Jenkins) - Exempt a school district with a ratified negotiated salary schedule for certified personnel from the requirement to provide a cost-of-living adjustment of $1,080 if the contract cost-of-living adjustment at least equals that amount.
HFA (8, S. Riggs) - Provide debt service funds to support bond funds in the amount of $15,000,000 for the renovation of Rupp Arena.
HFA (9/Analysis, H. Moberly) - Remove funding for the state matching requirement and language directives from the Secretary of State's Office for the Help America Vote Act and place the state matching requirement in the State Board of Elections as a necessary governmental expense; increase the State Board of Elections' General Fund appropriation by $86,700 in FY 2002-03 and by $179,500 in FY 2003-04 for general administration and support.
HFA (10, T. Pullin) - Restore $3.5 million to the Base Court Revenue Program in the Finance and Administration Cabinet from funds in the Corrections Community Services and Local Facilities Program.
HFA (11, T. Pullin) - Require local school districts to provide a cost-of-living salary adjustment for all classified employees in fiscal year 2003-2004.
SCS/Analysis - The State/Executive Branch Budget: retain the provisions of the original bill with the following changes: appropriate from the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $17,229,796,000 in fiscal year 2002-03 and $17,439,988,800 in fiscal year 2003-04, as follows:
Government Operations
2002-03 $617,484,700
2003-04 $584,353,900
Economic Development
2002-03 $19,923,900
2003-04 $23,743,000
Education
2002-03 $3,375,805,100
2003-04 $3,461,001,900
Education, Arts, and Humanities
2002-03 $228,188,500
2003-04 $243,749,000
Cabinet for Families and Children
2002-03 $991,297,900
2003-04 $997,984,100
Finance and Administration
2002-03 $429,382,300
2003-04 $427,855,700
Cabinet for Health Services
2002-03 $4,094,443,500
2003-04 $4,139,879,700
Justice Cabinet
2002-03 $635,016,400
2003-04 $647,955,900
Labor Cabinet
2002-03 $304,330,400
2003-04 $307,295,700
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
2002-03 $170,974,600
2003-04 $177,065,800
Personnel Cabinet
2002-03 $38,931,900
2003-04 $52,730,900
Postsecondary Education
2002-03 $3,307,383,700
2003-04 $3,431,502,900
Public Protection and Regulation
2002-03 $183,787,100
2003-04 $179,089,900
Revenue
2002-03 $103,850,700
2003-04 $104,285,600
Tourism Development
2002-03 $166,551,100
2003-04 $165,588,600
Transportation
2002-03 $1,712,922,300
2003-04 $1,725,853,900
Workforce Development
2002-03 $844,434,500
2003-04 $741,927,000
Budget Reserve Trust Fund
2002-03 $5,087,400
2003-04 $28,125,300;
Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows:
Capital Projects
2002-03 $1,590,403,246
2003-04 $384,852,277
Retain provisions of the bill as passed the House with the following changes:
Require an additional $10 million reduction in personal service contracts, and prevent personal service contracts to separated employees; reduce an additional 100 unclassified employees; impose a hiring freeze on merit employees unless an emergency situation is first reported to the General Assembly; exclude specified unclassified employees such as cabinet secretaries, commissioners, directors, and principal assistants from receiving the $1,080 cost-of-living adjustment; permit posting on the Internet or at a public library as legal notice options to newspaper publication; suspend consumer price index adjustments to legislative salaries and interim expense allowances for fiscal year 2003-2004; grant the Revenue Cabinet access to additional appropriations if it can improve tax collection efficiency; reduce by 50% the amount paid for affixing cigarette tax stamps; limit sales tax reimbursement to retailers at $1,500 per month; eliminate race track tax credits; eliminate the Kentucky Wood Competitiveness Corporation and require forfeiture of their equipment; restore some of the House fund transfer to KEDFA, and add new bonding authority; reduce appropriation for the New Economy by $5,000,000; reduce the Tourism Cabinet Secretary's Office biennial appropriation by $2,700,000; take money from the Environmental Quality Commission to provide matching funds for receipt of federal funds; restore funding for repair of state-owned dams; grant local school districts discretion as to the amount of cost-of-living salary adjustment to give teachers; eliminate the Regional Service Centers; create a new bond pool for Category 5 schools; impose a 2.6% reduction on the Education Professional Standards Board; capture the Teacher Education Model Program funds from the Education Professional Standards Board and the Council on Postsecondary Education; restore House reductions to local libraries; transfer the KAPT program from the Treasurer’s Office to KHEAA; restore $1,100,000 for the Help America Vote program; restore state funding for the cost of elections to the Board of Elections; increase funding for the Department of Agriculture for the West Nile Virus Program; reduce the duties, expenses, staff, and security for the Lieutenant Governor; eliminate funding for Coal Marketing and Export; increase flexibility for personnel and maintenance pool reductions in the Department of Finance and Administration; capture uncashed pari-mutuel ticket funds from the Racing Commission; delete fee increase for the Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists; restore 50% of the Base Court Revenues to cities, except for cities of the first class, and provide additional funds to local law enforcement agencies by increasing the arrest fee by $10; transfer $14,400,000 to match federal Medicaid fund dollars to yield a total of $47,700,000 of funding for Medicaid; transfer all unclaimed lottery prizes to Medicaid from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund; fully fund the $1,400,000 for the KASPER system enhancement in fiscal year 2003-2004; return county payments for juveniles to the $80 per diem figure; provide an additional $2.5 M funding for jail costs in fiscal year 2002-2003; delete new transportation projects; reduce state vehicles by an additional 500; freeze transportation contingency fund except for emergencies.
SCA (1, R. Stivers) - Revise funding for coal severance projects in Knott County regarding the Artisans Center, the Youth Development Center, sheriff's vehicles, and the community center.
SCA (2, R. Stivers) - Move coal severance funding to fiscal year 2002-2003 for the new fire department headquarters in Jenkins.
SCA (3, R. Stivers) - Reallocate funding for Muhlenberg County coal severance projects.
SCA (4, R. Stivers) - Reallocate funding for Ohio County coal severance projects.
SCA (5, R. Sanders Jr) - Authorize the Clark County juvenile detention facility to remain open until the state-operated facility in Fayette County is operational.
SCA (6, R. Sanders Jr) - Restore funding for the Louisville Waterfront Development Corporation in fiscal year 2003-2004.
SCA (7, J. Westwood) - Require that the dispensing of a scheduled drug to a patient at a Narcotic Addiction Treatment Program be reported to the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system.
SCA (8, D. Kelly) - Provide that no funds are appropriated for a runoff primary election.
SCA (9, G. Neal) - Require universities to develop and implement specific strategies and plans to achieve diversity in the recruitment of minorities for positions funded by the Endowment Match Program; require the University of Louisville to include a status report on Our Highest Potential Program in the university's annual report.
SCA (10, R. Stivers) - Adjust coal severance tax project funding for Union and Webster Counties.
SCA (11, R. Stivers) - Adjust funding for Floyd County coal severance projects.
SCA (12, R. Stivers) - Reallocate coal severance projects in Pike County and transfer funds to the General Fund Surplus.
CCR - Cannot agree and request appointment of Free Conference Committee.
FCCR (1/Analysis) - The State/Executive Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $18,951,686,111 in fiscal year 2002-03 and $17,859,226,850 in fiscal year 2003-04, as follows:
Government Operations
2002-03 $620,056,000
2003-04 $587,156,800
Economic Development
2002-03 $18,441,900
2003-04 $31,142,800
Education
2002-03 $3,365,805,100
2003-04 $3,464,695,500
Education, Arts, and Humanities
2002-03 $228,188,500
2003-04 $246,439,000
Cabinet for Families and Children
2002-03 $991,297,900
2003-04 $1,002,984,100
Finance and Administration
2002-03 $429,382,300
2003-04 $431,279,600
Cabinet for Health Services
2002-03 $4,094,443,500
2003-04 $4,139,991,700
Justice Cabinet
2002-03 $637,016,400
2003-04 $650,115,100
Labor Cabinet
2002-03 $304,330,400
2003-04 $307,295,700
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
2002-03 $170,974,600
2003-04 $177,215,700
Personnel Cabinet
2002-03 $38,931,900
2003-04 $52,730,900
Postsecondary Education
2002-03 $3,308,547,700
2003-04 $3,432,453,000
Public Protection and Regulation
2002-03 $184,313,600
2003-04 $179,478,200
Revenue
2002-03 $103,850,700
2003-04 $104,285,600
Tourism Development
2002-03 $166,601,100
2003-04 $165,588,600
Transportation
2002-03 $1,712,922,300
2003-04 $1,724,853,600
Workforce Development
2002-03 $844,434,500
2003-04 $741,927,000
Budget Reserve Trust Fund
2002-03 $5,087,400
2003-04 $25,921,800
Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows:
Capital Projects
2002-03 $1,727,060,311
2003-04 $393,671,750;
Provide a raise of $1,080 to all state employees except specified unclassified positions in FY 2003-04; impose a hiring freeze for all Chapter 18A positions, except extraordinary circumstances and several specific departments; require a reduction of unclassified executive branch employees of 250 by December 2003; require a reduction in expenditures on Personal Service Contracts and Memoranda of Agreement by $100 million from FY 2001-02 expenditures; permit employees of state government to be temporarily furloughed; reduce state vehicles assigned to agencies by 500 more than required by Executive Order 2002-1334; provide that for FY 2002-03, unclaimed lottery prize money in excess of $6,000,000, but limited to no more than $3,300,000, shall be transferred to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund; provide that any amount in excess of $9,300,000 shall be credited to the KEES Reserve Account and carried forward into FY 2004; provide that for FY 2003-04, all unclaimed lottery prize money shall be credited to the KEES Program; provide that management savings initiatives contained in Governor's Executive Order 2002-1334 shall be continued in the budget, including a reduction of 1000 employees, reductions in energy costs, vehicle usage, travel, printing costs, leasing costs, equipment purchases, and all other discretionary expenditures; provide that the Governor is not to expend more than 55% of Executive Branch appropriations during the first half of FY 2003-04; provide a pari-mutuel tax credit for tracks with an average daily handle of $1.2 million; provide that harness racetracks are not required to pay pari-mutuel tax on simulcast wagering; eliminate the cost of living increase for the General Assembly interim expense allowance in FY 2003-04; exempt from the 2.6% operating reduction in FY 2002-03 and the flat-lining of the resulting appropriation into FY 2003-04 Commonwealth's Attorneys, County Attorneys, and Kentucky Veterans Nursing Homes; provide for the Lieutenant Governor to retain statutory duties, office staff, and a car; do not provide funding for mansion support staff 30 days beyond budget adoption, executive security, do not provide a residence for the next Lieutenant Governor; provide restricted fund support for the Washington DC office for 2.5 months of operations in FY 2004, totaling $175,200; provide $25 Million in Bond Funds for the Kentucky Pride fund; provide a Water & Sewer Resources Development Fund for Tobacco Counties with $54.8 million in Bond Funds authorized with debt service provided from Tobacco Funds and future debt service to be provided from the General Fund; provide for Water & Sewer Resources Development Fund for Coal Producing Counties with $54.8 Million in Bond Funds authorized with debt service provided from Coal Severance Tax receipts; provide a total of $18.4 million in federal funds for construction of veterans' cemeteries in Northern Kentucky and Central Kentucky; provide $1.6 Million from Tobacco Funds to allow an estimated 5% bonus for county extension agents in each year; provide $1,100,000 for state's matching requirements and up to $1,000,000 as a necessary governmental expense towards meeting the maximum state match to receive federal funds for the Help America Vote Act; provide language that eliminates gubernatorial runoff primary elections; move KAPT program from the Treasury to KHEAA; adopt language prohibiting any appropriation to slates of candidates out of the public campaign finance fund; permit slates of candidates to receive contributions within 28 days of any election; allow slates of candidates to retain funds received for the primary election in the General Election; establish campaign limits from permanent committees to not exceed 25% of the contributions received by the slate in any one election up to a maximum of $300,000; provide $2,000,000 in FY 2002-03 to support the Teacher Education Model Program to enhance teacher quality initiatives throughout the Commonwealth; provide $200,000 in FY 2002-03 and $3 million in FY 2003-04 from the Finance Cabinet to the affordable housing trust fund; provide $5.4 million in FY 2002-03 and $2.7 million in FY 2003-2004 for base court revenues based on 50 percent of the average net court revenue earned by the city during 1973-1974, 1974-1975, and 1975-1976 fiscal years; eliminate the transfer of $1,430,000 to the General Fund from the Health and Welfare Fund of the Kentucky Racing Commission in both years of the biennium; provide $500,000 in fiscal year 2002-2003 and $1,000,000 in fiscal year 2003-2004 to the Revenue Cabinet for additional personnel and operating costs to enhance tax compliance efforts; exempt the Revenue Cabinet from the hiring freeze; set juvenile detention subsidies to counties at $94 per day per juvenile; set authorized strength of the State Police at its current level of 1,070 officers; provide FY 2004 salary enhancement of $1,000 to state troopers, dispatchers, bomb and arson investigators who make less than $60,000; provide funding to support 970 sworn officers each year; provide General Fund moneys to support educational services to state inmates; provide that the jail per diem to counties is reduced by $1 per day from $28.76 to $27.76; provide additional General Fund moneys of $3.5 million in fiscal year 2002-2003 and $5 million in fiscal year 2003-2004 for the local jail program; allow inmates to earn sentence credit for work performed; provide $14,700,000 to support one-time payments to local school districts in FY 2002-03; provide approximately $82 million to increase the SEEK base per pupil from $3,081 in FY 2002-03 to $3,191 in FY 2003-04; provide $3,000,000 to support the state equalization of an additional growth nickel levy for eligible local school districts in FY 2003-04; provide language requiring local school districts to authorize a cost-of-living adjustment totaling at least $1,080, regardless of contract length, for all certified personnel in FY 2003-04; provide language that requires local school districts to authorize at least a 2.7% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for all classified personnel in FY 2003-04; provide $15,000,000 in FY 2002-03 and $18,693,300 in FY 2003-04 to support the Technology Escrow Account, which supports local school technology efforts; provide a 1.4% General Fund COLA in FY 2002-03 for eligible members of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System (KTRS); provide a 1.5% General Fund COLA for eligible KTRS members in FY 2003-04; provide necessary debt service to support $100 million in bonding authority authorized by the 2000 General Assembly; utilize debt service savings to provide an additional $32.3 million in new bonding authority to local school districts; establish the Urgent Need School Trust Fund to support replacement or renovation of selected school facilities as determined by criteria developed by the Department of Education; provide debt service in the amount of $2,313,100 in FY 2003-04 to support $55,284,000 in Bond Funds to support this initiative; support the replacement or renovation of “Category 5” school facilities as identified in the Kentucky Department of Education’s Building Assessment document as of March 4, 2003; provide Restricted Funds debt service in the amount of $2,290,000 in FY 2003-04 to support $54,730,900 in Bond Funds to support this initiative; provide General Fund appropriations of $1.107 billion in FY 2002-03 and $1.168 billion in FY 2003-04 for the universities, community, and technical colleges; provide $80.3 million in FY 2002-03 and $95.1 million in FY 2003-04 for the Strategic Investment and Incentive Funding Program as established by the Postsecondary Improvement Act of 1997; provide $100 million in Bond Funds in the first year of the biennium in Part II, Capital Projects Budget for the Endowment Match Program of the Research Challenge Trust Fund; provide $20 million in Bond Funds in the first year of the biennium in Part II, Capital Projects Budget for the Endowment Match Program of the Regional Universities Excellence Trust Fund; provide $63,000,000 in FY 2002-03 and $68,000,000 FY 2003-04 to fully fund the Kentucky Excellence in Education Scholarship (KEES) Program based on the forecasted needs of the program; provide $803,000 each year for the Ovarian Cancer Screening Program at the University of Kentucky; provide $1.2 million each year for Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening, and $6.0 million for Lung Cancer Research at the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville; increase General Fund support to the Universities and KCTCS by $18.9 million in FY 2003-04; provide agency bond authorization in the amount of $155 million in FY 2002-03 to accommodate increased enrollment and make needed fire/safety improvements; provide an additional $5 Million General Fund for the Department for Community Services base budget; provide an additional $47 million ($14 million State Funds) to partially offset the projected Medicaid budget deficit in FY 2003-04; provide an additional $35 million ($10.5 million State Funds) for an additional 500 FY 2003-04 slots in the Supports for Community Living Program (HB 144); provide Restricted Funds in the amount of $1.47 million in FY 2003-04 to upgrade the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) System; provide additional funds totaling $2 million in FY 2003-04 to support 1,300 additional clients in the Homecare Program; provide a total of $450,000 in Restricted Funds to increase Long Term Care Ombudsman services in each of the 15 ADDs; provide $909,300 to support $1,075,000 in federal dollars throughout the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet; provide $150,000 in FY 2002-03 and FY 2003-04 for the West Louisville Community Project; provide language that requires the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet to provide funding for the Environmental Quality Commission in FY 2003-04; provide Bond Funds in the amount of $30,000,000 for the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) Bond Pool; provide Bond Funds in the amount of $10,000,000 for the Economic Development Bond Pool Fund; provide Bond Funds in the amount of $15,000,000 for the Rupp Arena/Lexington Civic Center project; provide Bond Funds in the amount of $15,000,000 for the New Economy Bond Pool; provide General Fund support in the amount of $5,000,000 for the High Tech Construction and High Tech Investment Pools; provide debt service in the amount of $5,275,000 to support $55,000,000 in Bond Funds authorized in the Office of the Secretary (Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority Pool, Economic Development Bond Pool, Rupp Arena/Lexington Civic Center bonds); provide language that requires moneys available to KEDFA under KRS 154.20-010 to 154.20-180 be used exclusively for the purposes of those statutes or as expressly provided for in this Act and that nothing in the Act shall prohibit the transfer of funds from KEDFA to the New Economy program as set out in the Act; provide language that directs the Secretary of Tourism to conduct a cost/benefit analysis of the possibility of finishing and opening newly constructed golf courses at Dale Hollow Lake State Park, Yatesville Lake State Park, Grayson Lake State Park, Mineral Mounds State Park, Pennyrile State Park, and Kincaid Lake State Park, and provide bond authority to finish the courses if the study shows that to be the most cost effective option; authorize the Kentucky State Fair Board to issue up to $52,000,000 in revenue bonds provided agency revenue can be identified to support debt service payments and provided the bonds are issued through the State Property and Buildings Commission; deposit $1,000,000 additional dollars in FY 2003 and $2,000,000 in FY 2004 from the Highway Construction Contingency Fund to the Industrial Road Access account to be used at the discretion of the Secretary of Economic Development; add language to limit the use of the Highway Construction Contingency Fund to 50% prior to December 9, 2003 and other emergency projects only; provide for fund transfers to the General Fund totaling $331,213,900 in fiscal year 2002 - 2003 and $96,753,000 in fiscal year 2003 - 2004; and provide for identification and appropriation of Phase I Master Settlement Tobacco funds totaling $125,407,000 in fiscal year 2002 - 2003 and $109,100,000 in fiscal year 2003 - 2004.
FCCR (2/Analysis) - Retain provisions of Free Conference Committee Report 1; substitute language found on page 34, lines 12 through 15 relating to a one-time Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) appropriation to clarify that the appropriation is separate and in addition to the base guarantee for the SEEK program, and that the additional moneys shall not become part of the continuing base; make technical corrections.
Feb 4-introduced in House
Feb 5-to Appropriations and Revenue (H)
Feb 10-posting waived retroactively; reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Feb 11-2nd reading, to Rules; recommitted to Appropriations and Revenue (H); posting waived
Feb 13-reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) (2) and (3) ; to House Floor; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day; floor amendments (1) (2) (3) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute ; recommitted to Appropriations and Revenue (H)
Feb 14-reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2), committee amendments (4) (5) and (6) ; floor amendments (5) (6) (7) (8) and (9) filed to Committee Substitute (2) ; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Feb 18-floor amendments (10) and (11) filed to Committee Substitute (2) ; 3rd reading, passed 95-4 with Committee Substitute (2), committee amendments (4) (5) and (6), floor amendment (9)
Feb 19-received in Senate; to Appropriations and Revenue (S)
Feb 20-reported without opinion; 1st reading; recommitted to Appropriations and Revenue (S)
Feb 24-taken from committee; laid on clerk's desk; 2nd reading; recommitted to Appropriations and Revenue (S)
Feb 26-reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) and (12); posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 26, 2003; 3rd reading, passed 37-1 with Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) and (12)
Feb 27-received in House; House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) and (12); received in Senate; posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) and (12); Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute, committee amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) and (12); Conference Committee appointed in Senate
Feb 28-Conference Committee appointed in House
Mar 3-Free Conference Committee appointed in House
Mar 10-Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate; Conference Committee report adopted in Senate; Free Conference Committee appointed in Senate; Free Conference Committee reports #1`and #2 filed in House and Senate; Free Conference Committee report #2 adopted in Senate; passed 36-1; Free Conference Committee report #2 adopted in House; passed 87-7
Mar 11-enrolled, signed by each presiding officer; delivered to Governor
Mar 20-ten (10) line items vetoed
Mar 24-veto messages received in House; Posted for passage for consideration of Governor's vetoes; vetoes #2 (100-0), #3 (96-2), #8 (99-1), #9 (97-2), #10 (83-13) overriden; received in Senate; veto messages received
Mar 25-Posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto; vetoes overriden #2 (34-1), #3 (27-8) #8 (35-0); received in House; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
Mar 26-delivered to Secretary of State (Acts ch. 156)
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