98RS HB321

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HB 321 (BR 1432) - J. Richards, J. Barrows, J. Callahan, L. Clark, H. Moberly, G. Stumbo

     AN ACT relating to appropriations 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, surplus bond proceeds, and other funds, as indicated, $40,169,400 for fiscal year 1997-98; $15,763,741,700 for fiscal year 1998-99, and $14,741,430,400 for fiscal year 1999-00, as follows: Government Operations 1997-98 $ 261,500 1998-99 $ 320,507,200 1999-00 $ 318,367,500 Economic Development 1998-99 $ 16,827,500 1999-00 $ 18,699,500 Education 1998-99 $ 2,966,732,300 1999-00 $ 3,085,541,900 Education, Arts, and Humanities 1998-99 $ 187,580,300 1999-00 $ 197,386,000 Families and Children 1997-98 $ 5,000,000 1998-99 $ 855,115,300 1999-00 $ 875,726,200 Finance and Administration 1998-99 $ 369,675,000 1999-00 $ 391,510,000 Health Services 1998-99 $ 3,467,847,600 1999-00 $ 3,437,598,300 Justice 1997-98 $ 10,471,400 1998-99 $ 516,393,600 1999-00 $ 562,805,400 Labor 1998-99 $ 340,916,200 1999-00 $ 345,810,300 Natural Resources and Environmental Protection 1998-99 $ 149,412,100 1999-00 $ 149,812,500 Personnel 1997-98 $ 350,000 1998-99 $ 29,091,900 1999-00 $ 30,396,600 Postsecondary Education 1997-98 $ 452,000 1998-99 $ 2,492,807,400 1999-00 $ 2,603,040,800 Public Protection and Regulation 1997-98 $ 690,500 1998-99 $ 162,066,400 1999-00 $ 165,479,900 Revenue 1998-99 $ 86,257,400 1999-00 $ 89,372,900 Tourism Development 1997-98 $ 1,867,000 1998-99 $ 142,116,500 1999-00 $ 147,578,000 Transportation 1997-98 $ 2,300,000 1998-99 $ 1,621,340,000 1999-00 $ 1,635,914,500 Workforce Development 1997-98 $ 294,000 1998-99 $ 494,784,000 1999-00 $ 502,806,100; Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital projects amounts as follows: Capital Projects 1997-98 $ 18,483,000 1998-99 $ 1,544,271,000 1999-00 $ 183,584,000 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; provide that any excess General Fund or Road Fund debt service shall lapse to the respective surplus account pursuant to KRS 48.720; provide that no appropriation from any fund source shall exceed the sum specified until the agency has submitted required documentation to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue for review and action pursuant to KRS 48.630; provide for the allotment of unbudgeted appropriations; provide that all questions regarding the interpretation of any appropriation shall be decided by the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet pursuant to KRS 48.500; provide that within 60 days upon adjournment of the 1998 General Assembly the Governor's Office for Policy and Management shall prepare a final budget document based on the proposed Executive Budget as enacted by the 1998 General Assembly, and other acts which contain appropriation provisions for the 1998-2000 biennium, and based upon supporting documentation and legislative records as considered by the 1998 General Assembly, and the statutory budget memorandum; provide that the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet monitor and report on the financial condition of the Commonwealth pursuant to KRS 48.400; provide that no additional funds be deposited in the Budget Reserve Trust Fund for 1998-2000 except as provided in this Act; provide that the employer contribution rate for KERS be nor more than 8.03 percent for nonhazardous duty employees, 18.66 percent for hazardous duty employees, and 23.41 percent for State Police; provide a 5 percent annual increment each fiscal year for state personnel and for a budgeted positions record; provide for restricted funds transfers to the General Fund; provide for a General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; provide for a Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan and a Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; provide conditions, directives, and mandates for the following budget units: Attorney General, Legal Services Contracts, Deputy and Assistant Attorneys General Salaries; Auditor of Public Accounts, State Agencies Audit Services Contracts, Audit Records and Status Reports, Charges for Federal, State, and Local Audits; Kentucky Retirement Systems, Contracting Legal Services, Economic Development, East and West Kentucky Corporations' and Regional Offices' Strategic Plan, Financial Incentives; Department of Education, Allocation of Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Funds, Minimum Statewide Salary Schedules; Executive Policy and Management, Employment of Personnel; Management Support Services, Funding for Employer Health and Life Insurance and Retirement Contributions; Learning Results Services, School Rewards Trust Fund, Kentucky Education Technology System; Learning Support Services, Family Resource and Youth Services Centers, Education Professional Standards Board; Education, Arts, and Humanities, Teachers' Retirement System, Distinguished Educators Retirement Benefits, School Facilities Construction Commission, Local Districts Facilities Plans; Families and Children, Cabinet level, Maximizing Federal Funds, Social Insurance - Benefits; Finance and Administration, Federally Assisted Wastewater Loan Fund and Federally Assisted Water Supply Revolving Fund; Health Services, Cabinet level, Maximizing Federal Funds, Medicaid Services - Benefits, Hospital Indigent Patient Reporting, Hospital Indigent Patient Billing, Provider Tax Information, Indigent Care Posting, Settlement of Obligations Incurred Prior to Repaid Capitation, Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payments, Quality and Charity Care Trust Fund, Department for Mental Health/Mental Retardation, Computer System; Justice, Legal Aid Restrictions; State Police, Salary Increase; Community Services and Local Facilities, Adult Institutions; Labor, General Administration and Support, Monthly Reporting; Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Department for Natural Resources, Budget Management; Kentucky River Authority, Water Withdrawal Fees; Public Service Commission, Public Service Commission Building; provide for a General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan not to exceed $500,000,000 for fiscal years 1998-98 and 1999-2000 allocated 20% to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund, 17.36% to the State Technology Projects Fund, 17.46 percent to the School Technology Projects Fund, and 45.18% to the Statewide Infrastructure Fund.

HB 321 - AMENDMENTS


     HCS - The State/Executive Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, capital construction surplus, investment income, surplus bond proceeds, and other funds, as indicated, $24,484,600 for fiscal year 1997-98; $14,253,638,900 in fiscal year 1998-99; and $14,617,998,500 in fiscal year 1999-2000, as follows: Government Operations 1997-98 $ 1,278,700 1998-99 $ 320,001,800 1999-00 $ 319,001,800 Economic Development 1998-99 $ 17,127,500 1999-00 $ 18,999,500 Education 1997-98 $..............35,000 1998-99 $ 2,966,378,200 1999-00 $ 3,081,839,300 Education, Arts, and Humanities 1997-98 $. .........696,000 1998-99 $ 178,439,800 1999-00 $ 197,321,000 Families and Children 1997-98 $ 5,000,000 1998-99 $ 868,496,700 1999-00 $ 895,664,900 Finance and Administration 1998-99 $ 369,675,000 1999-00 $ 391,510,000 Health Services 1998-99 $ 3,490,558,500 1999-00 $ 3,467,312,800 Justice 1997-98 $ 10,703,700 1998-99 $ 519,978,500 1999-00 $ 571,905,100 Labor 1998-99 $ 340,916,200 1999-00 $ 345,810,300 Natural Resources and Environmental Protection 1998-99 $ 150,946,100 1999-00 $ 151,309,500 Personnel 1997-98 $ 350,000 1998-99 $ 29,091,900 1999-00 $ 30,396,600 Postsecondary Education 1997-98 $ 452,000 1998-99 $ 2,488,171,400 1999-00 $ 2,600,044,800 Public Protection and Regulation 1997-98 $ 1,008,200 1998-99 $ 166,172,400 1999-00 $ 169,427,900 Revenue 1997-98 $ 2,300,000 1998-99 $ 86,757,400 1999-00 $ 89,872,900 Tourism Development 1997-98 $ 1,917,000 1998-99 $ 142,216,500 1999-00 $ 147,653,000 Transportation 1998-99 $ 1,622,800,000 1999-00 $ 1,635,994,500 Workforce Development 1997-98 $ 744,000 1998-99 $ 495,905,500 1999-00 $ 503,934,600; Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital projects amounts as follows: Capital Projects 1997-98 $ 18,483,000 1998-99 $ 1,634,060,000 1999-00 183,714,000; retain the provisions of HB 321 with exceptions: provide for the interim revisions of restricted funds and federal funds; provide for funds transfers; provide for use of unclaimed lottery prize money for affordable housing trust fund; provide capital projects funding for state projects that impact drainage in City of Frankfort; provide that the first $1.5 million in investment income, to the General Fund; revise the highway plan; provide for the statewide infrastructure and endowment fund projects in the General Fund Surplus Expenditure Fund; amortize teacher's retirement benefits; provide for postsecondary regional education centers; provide conditions, directives, and mandates for the following budget units: Attorney General, Tobacco Settlement Account; Asbestos Litigation Reimbursement; Annual and Sick Leave Service; Auditor of Public Accounts, Empower Kentucky Audit Expenses; Department of Agriculture, Kentucky Farm Winery Corporation; Kentucky Veterans' Center, Economic Development, Regional Industrial Park Program Reports; Financial Incentives, Kentucky Woods Product Competitiveness Corporation Reports; Department of Education, Kentucky Education Technology System; Teachers' Compensation Pilot Project; Community After School program; Education, Arts and Humanities, East Kentucky Center for Science, Math, and Technology Resources/Exhibits Work Center; Four Rivers Center; Social Insurance-Benefits, Energy Assistance Trust Fund; Education for Recipients of Public Assistance; Personal Care Homes; Department for Social Services, Emergency Shelter; Outreach Programs; Homecare Match; Budget and Financial Administration; Aging Services, Medicaid Services Waivers; Health Services, Nursing Facility Budget Medicaid Budget Analysis; Department for Public Health, Public Health Department Services for Indigent Persons; Prescription Tracking System; Mental Health/Mental Retardation, Assistive Technology Loan Fund; Certificate of Need, Certificate of Need Exemption; Administration Support, Appropriation Revisions; Program Administration; State Police, Salary Policies; Community Services and Local Facilities, Probation and Parole Career Ladder Program; Adult Institutions, Inmate Projection/Bed Status and Financial Reports; Private Prison Bed Expansion; Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Empower Kentucky Simplified Regulatory Initiative; Jenny Wiley Trail; Clean Air Task Force and Quarterly Reports; Postsecondary Education, Regional Postsecondary Education Center; Programs of Distinction or Research Initiatives; Research Challenge Trust Fund Account; Regional University of Excellence Trust Fund; Eastern Kentucky University, Southeast Regional Postsecondary Education Center; Murray State University, West Regional Postsecondary Education Center; Western Kentucky University, Central Regional Postsecondary Education Center-Phase I; South Regional Postsecondary Education Center-Phase I; Kentucky Community Technical College System, Community College System Faculty Salaries; Space Allocation; Belinda Mason Academic Technical Center; Tourism Development, Golf Course Initiatives; Golf Course Design; Marketing Strategy Report; Department of Fish and Wildlife, Analysis of Compensation levels; Transportation, Transportation Cabinet Office Building; Revenue Sharing Budget Transfer; New Economic Development Road Bond Usage; State Match Provisions; Excess Debt Service/Lease-Rental Appropriations; Permanent Positions Cap; Financial Reports; Public Transportation; A-A Highway Traffic Accident Study; Access Permits; Highway Plans; Workforce Development, Area Vocational Education Centers Participation in the Education Technology Program; provide for a $510,000,000 General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; provide for Statewide Infrastructure and Endowment Fund, which includes $110,000,000 for Endowed Chairs; authorize up to $130,000,000 bonds for 39 itemized projects and appropriate $11,000,000 General Fund debt service.
     HFA (1, B. Yonts) - Amend to provide an additional general fund appropriation of $500,000 for the Madisonville Community College/Muhlenberg County Classroom Building in the Surplus Expenditure Plan.
     HFA (2, M. Treesh) - Make technical correction.
     HFA (3, C. Siler) - Require that employees in any school district that adopted a calendar for the 1997-98 school year in which the equivalent of 1050 hours of instruction was completed in less than 175 instructional days shall not be required to work extra time unless they are paid extended employment from the district's existing funds.
     HFA (4, P. Marcotte) - Retain the provisions of the committee substitute with the following change: under Part IX, Special Provisions, Government Operation, No. 52 Transportation, add a new provision m. under the Biennial Highway Plan to delay fiscal years on Boone County highway project item numbers 06-116.00.
     HFA (5, R. Damron) - Provide a window for federal retirees to file a claim for refund for tax paid on federal retirement income for 1986, 1987, and 1988, and provide funding from the Surplus Expenditure Plan.
     HFA (6, R. Damron) - Amend Part I, Operating Budget, to reduce the General Fund appropriation for the Department of Education, Learning Results Services, by $3,357,500 in fiscal year 1998-99 and $3,557,500 in fiscal year 1999-2000; increase the General Fund appropriation for the School Facilities Construction Commission by $3,357,500 in fiscal year 1998-99 and $3,557,500 in fiscal year 1999-2000; amend Part II, Capital Projects Budget, to increase new bonding authority SFCC may issue by $70,000,000; amend Part IX, Special Provisions, to require the Department of Education to provide a training program equal to that provided for distinguished educators during fiscal years 1993-94 through 1997-98 for at least one person from each local school district; provide for reimbursement of travel expenses; require training program be conducted at a location which will minimize the travel time; require local school districts to select persons to represent the district; require funding support provided in the operating budget for distinguished educators be utilized to provide reimbursement of travel expenses; limit travel expenses to levels authorized under administrative regulation 200 KAR 2:006; require persons selected to attend this training to agree to provide assistance to the local district they represent for a period not less than one year; prohibit persons selected for the training from receiving additional compensation or retirement benefits; delete references to the salary supplement provided to distinguished educators; adjust totals and subtotals.
     HFA (7, J. Gooch) - Add a general provision that would require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to conduct a study of high school teachers' salaries and public university faculties' salaries to determine a plan of action to achieve community college faculties' salary levels at the midpoint of the two.
     HFA (8, P. Worthington) - Retain the provisions of the committee substitute with the following change: under Part IX, Special Provisions, Government Operation, No. 52 Transportation, add a new provision m. under the Biennial Highway Plan to advance fiscal years on Gallatin County highway projects item numbers 06-333.00 and 06-358.00.
     HFA (9, M. Marzian) - Amend budget provision regarding the reallocation of excess Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) funds.
     HFA (10, P. Worthington) - Add a provision under Part IX, Special Provisions, Government Operation, No. 52 Transportation, to advance fiscal years on Gallatin County highway projects item numbers 06-333.00 and 06-358.00.
     HFA (11, H. Moberly) - Make technical corrections.
     HFA (12, C. Ratliff) - Increase the coal severance tax return to the Local Government Economic Development Fund to 100% of the coal severance tax receipts and adjust the return to the Local Government Economic Assistance Fund and provide funding from the Surplus Expenditure Plan.
     HFA (13, P. Marcotte) - Retain the provisions of the committee substitute with the following change: under Part IX, Special Provisions, Government Operation, No. 52 Transportation, add a new provision m. under the Biennial Highway Plan to delay fiscal years on Boone County highway project item number 06-116.00.
     HFA (14, J. Barrows) - Delete provisions designating regional universities as the operating authority for Regional Postsecondary Education Centers.
     SCS - SCS - 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, surplus bond proceeds, and other funds, as indicated, $26,881,100 for fiscal year 1997-98; $14,260,262,300 for fiscal year 1998-99, and $14,638,842,700 for fiscal year 1999-00, as follows: Government Operations 1997-98 $ 1,475,200 1998-99 $ 318,997,800 1999-00 $ 317,954,800 Economic Development 1998-99 $ 16,837,500 1999-00 $ 18,709,500 Education 1997-98 $ 35,000 1998-99 $ ,964,635,200 1999-00 $ 3,080,381,400 Education, Arts, and Humanities 1997-98 $ 696,000 1998-99 $ 180,186,300 1999-00 $ 201,968,000 Families and Children 1997-98 $ 5,000,000 1998-99 $ 869,336,700 1999-00 $ 893,709,900 Finance and Administration 1998-99 $ 369,675,000 1999-00 $ 402,510,000 Health Services 1998-99 $ 3,491,123,500 1999-00 $ 3,466,947,800 Justice 1997-98 $ 10,708,700 1998-99 $ 522,739,900 1999-00 $ 574,702,200 Labor 1998-99 $ 340,916,200 1999-00 $ 345,810,300 Natural Resources and Environmental Protection 1998-99 $ 150,946,100 1999-00 $ 151,309,500 Personnel 1997-98 $ 550,000 1998-99 $ 29,591,900 1999-00 $ 30,396,600 Postsecondary Education 1997-98 $ 452,000 1998-99 $ 2,490,183,400 1999-00 $ 2,605,710,800 Public Protection and Regulation 1997-98 $ 1,008,200 1998-99 $ 167,333,400 1999-00 $ 169,606,900 Revenue 1998-99 $ 86,757,400 1999-00 $ 89,872,900 Tourism Development 1997-98 $ 1,917,000 1998-99 $ 142,641,500 1999-00 $ 149,428,000 Transportation 1997-98 $ 2,300,000 1998-99 $ 1,622,255,000 1999-00 $ 1,635,689,500 Workforce Development 1997-98 $ 2,744,000 1998-99 $ 496,105,000 1999-00 $ 504,134,600; Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital projects amounts as follows: Capital Projects 1997-98 $ 20,083,000 1998-99 $ 1,745,966,800 1999-00 $ 183,889,000 retain the provisions of HB 321/GA with exceptions: provide necessary governmental expense authority to the Commonwealth's Attorneys and County Attorneys for staff to handle workload of new judges; add funds to hire additional auditors for performance audits; delete funding for the Area Development Districts; provide funding for the Jefferson County literacy program; provide operating funds for the Kentucky Rural Development Center; establish a professional education preparation program at the Osteopathic Medical School; provide operating funds for the Hazard Community College extended campus at Hindman and Maysville Community College Licking Valley extended campus; provide funding for the Cardinal Stadium renovation; revise the biennial highway plan; provide funding for a literacy development grant program; provide for a capital area improvement projects pool; provide for a tri-cities projects pool; provide conditions, directives, and mandates for the following budget units: Agriculture, Murray Viticulturists, Breathitt Veterinary Center; Veterans' Center, Operating Funds for Veterans' Nursing Home Projects; Education, Secondary Vocational Education and Technology Centers Operations; Applicants for Superintendent; Kentucky School for the Deaf; Families and Children, Salary Increases, Distinguished Service Awards, Private Child Care Contract Reimbursements; Health Services, Medicaid Budget Analysis Reports, Adult/Children's Crisis Stabilization Units/Care Systems, Poison Control Center Contract, Cost Saving Measures; Justice, Reimbursement to Counties for Interstate Inmate Detainees; Corrections, Reporting Requirements; Personnel, Pay Equity Study, State Group Health Insurance Plan; Postsecondary Education, Regional Postsecondary Education Centers, Bonds to Replace Local Support of Capital Construction Projects, Lees College Branch of Hazard Community College; Tourism, Leasing of Horse Park Property; Transportation, Motor Pool Vehicles, Motor Vehicle License Plates, Federal Aid Highway Funds; Workforce Development, Secondary Vocational Education and Technology Centers Operations; and revise the General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan to conform to the Senate budget.
     SFA (1, N. Kafoglis) - Describe the protections for personnel who may be affected in a transfer of a state-operated secondary area vocational education center to a local school district, including granting of tenure, guaranteeing salary levels, and payment for accrued leave and transfer of sick leave.
     SFA (2, E. Scorsone) - Delete references that identify debt service to specific universities for regional postsecondary education centers; provide that the Council on Postsecondary Education shall seek input from all of the regional universities, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System regarding the student and community needs within specific regions of the state to determine facilities needed to meet the academic and student needs of the regions; and provide that the council is the sole state agency responsible for recommending regional postsecondary education centers or any other stand-alone facilities for funding.
     SFA (3, T. Philpot) - Amend to provide that notwithstanding the provisions of KRS Chapter 154A the Kentucky Lottery Corporation ceases to exist after June 30, 1998; delete the General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan and provide that the General Fund Surplus shall be appropriated as required by the elimination of General Fund lottery revenues.
     SFA (4, N. Kafoglis) - Increase appropriation for supported living to provide a total of $5.6 million in new funding; add language to special provisions requiring expenditure of funds on supported living.
     SFA (5, J. Pendleton) - Allow Cabinet for Health Services to pursue alternative funding strategies for crisis stabilization units, substance abuse treatment services, and targeted mental health/mental retardation services.
     SFA (6, E. Tori) - WITHDRAWN.
     SFA (7, L. Casebier) - Establish non-executive management salaries as a priority in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System budget.
     SFA (8, E. Scorsone) - Require the University of Kentucky to place the highest priority on improving the salaries of the Lexington Community College faculty and staff.
     SFA (9, B. Bailey) - Provide for an increase in payment, from $255 to $500 per precinct for the state's share of county election expenses.
     SFA (10, E. Rose) - Provide a $35,000 General Fund appropriation to the Owsley County Sheriffs' Law Enforcement Program.
     SFA (11, T. Shaughnessy) - WITHDRAWN.
     SFA (12, T. Shaughnessy) - Restore endowed chair appropriations.
     SFA (13, B. Bailey) - Make technical corrections.
     SFA (14, T. Shaughnessy) - Provide that $3,000,000 be transferred from the Kentucky successful schools trust fund to the Commonwealth school improvement fund established in KRS 158.805 and appropriated to fund grants to schools in which the proportion of successful students declined in the 1996-98 school years.
     SFA (15, G. Williams) - Direct that each school district receive Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) program funds sufficient to provide a cost-of-living adjustment for certified and classified employees pursuant to passage of enabling legislation by 1998 General Assembly.
     SFA (16, G. Williams) - Identify Commonwealth's assessment test as a student assessment test.
     SFA (17, R. Leeper) - Require filing of reports relating to implementation of authorized projects for Regional Postsecondary Education Centers with the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee.
     SFA (18, G. Williams) - Provide SEEK Funds for cost-of-living adjustments for certified and classified school employees, pending passage of enabling legislation.
     SFA (19, G. Williams) - Provide that the tax on prescription drugs shall not be levied after June 30, 1999.
     SFA (20, L. Casebier) - Establish non-executive-management staff salaries as a priority in the Kentucky Community College and Technical College System budget.
     CCR - Conference committee could not agree and requested Free Conference Committee be appointed.
     FCCR (Majority Report) - The State/Executive Branch Budget: appropriate for operating and capital projects budgets from the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Agency Funds, capital construction surplus, investment income, surplus bond proceeds, and other funds, as indicated: $49,964,100 in fiscal year 1997-98; $16,002,781,200 in fiscal year 1998-99; and $14,823,944,600 in fiscal year 1999-2000; concur with the House or Senate reports, with the following new or revised appropriation items, provisions, or amounts that differed from the House or Senate reports: 1. Local Government Economic Development Fund: provide authority for Pine Mountain State Park Lake Development - $500,000, and Knott County Central Community Recreational Field Renovation - $250,000. 2. Registry of Election Finance: provide $1,000,000 for the state share of Gubernatorial campaign financing, with the balance deemed a necessary governmental expense. 3. Education, Arts and Humanities, School Facilities Construction: provide that offers of assistance for newly authorized bonds are limited to a total of $201,000,000, as set forth in Part II, Capital Projects. 4 Health Services, Medicaid Benefits: provide $5,000,000 General Fund in fiscal year 1998-99, which can carry forward to fiscal year 1999-2000, to replace the repealed pharmacy provider tax. 5. Justice Operations, Criminal Justice fund: Owsley County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Program with General Fund instead of Restricted Funds. 6. Council on Postsecondary Education: provide bonding authorization for the University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health from Restricted Agency Bonds, instead of General Fund supported Bond Funds, for $6,000,000.(original amount was $10,000,000). 7. Public Protection and Regulation, Public Advocacy: provide $500,000 from the General Fund annually for grants to counties for the local public advocacy program (Jefferson and Fayette Counties). 8. Vocational Rehabilitation: provide $200,000 from the General Fund annually for interpreters. 9. Finance and Administration, Facilities Management: Increase Capital Construction and Equipment Purchase Contingency Fund from $5,000,000 to $7,500,000 of Investment Income moneys and reduce the Statewide Deferred Maintenance Pool from $3,500,000 to $1,000,000. 10. Finance and Administration, Office of the Secretary, Community Infrastructure Projects: provide from the General Fund $275,000 for the Local Rescue Squads Grant Program and $715,000 for the Local Fire Departments Capital Assistance Program; projects were funded from Restricted Funds in the Housing, Building and Construction budget unit. 11. Designated General Fund Balance: provide for the 1998-99 General Fund balance to be designated in the statutory budget memorandum. 12. Pharmacy Provider Rate Reduction: specify the tax rate for dispensing or delivering prescription drugs at fifteen cents per prescription for payment received after June 30, 1999. 13. Health Insurance Tax Deduction: exclude from adjusted gross income for taxable years after December 1998, 70% of amount paid for health insurance by taxpayers and dependents. 14. Unitary Tax Refund/Credit: prohibit refund or credit for tax overpayment collected under KRS Chapter 141 that is attributable to filing consolidated, combined, or unitary business return under specified conditions. 15. Health Plan Coverage: Require all health plans to provide coverage for treatment of autism of a child covered by the policy. 16. Sovereign Immunity: waive sovereign immunity to the extent of motor vehicle liability coverage when purchased by government agency. 17. Capital Gains Tax: provide that definition of adjusted gross income pursuant to KRS 141.010(10) is modified to exclude capital gains income attributable to property taken by eminent domain. 18. Alcohol and Drug Counselor Certification: require Kentucky Board of Certification of Alcohol and Drug Counselors to have reciprocity with National Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors and the International Counselors' Reciprocity Consortium. 19. Debt Service Interest Savings: direct Finance Secretary and State Budget Director to implement necessary action to achieve debt service cost savings for fiscal year 1999-2000 and report actions and finding to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue. 20. Department of Education, Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Program: provide for calendar for local school districts utilizing 1,050 hours of instructional time. 21. Department of Education, Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Program: provide for consumer price index directing the identification of the percent increase for all urban consumers between the two (2) most recent calendar years (it is determined this percentage increase for calendar years 1996 and 1997 is two and three-tenths percent). 22. Department of Education, Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Program: provide that the McCracken County School District be allowed one day of mourning and be required to complete the equivalent of one hundred seventy-four (174) instructional days during the 1997-1998 school year. 23. Department of Education, Management Support Services: provide that if amounts appropriated for the assessment program are insufficient to meet testing program costs, funds may be transferred from the pupil transportation component of the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Program and the total amount expended for the testing program shall not exceed $8,100,000 in each fiscal year. 24. Department of Education, Learning Support Services: specify who may serve on school-based decision making councils as parents representatives, and require councils to adopt policies relating to selection of personnel. 25. Department of Education, Learning Support Services: provide for expenditure by advisory council of Gifted and Talented Education program funds. 26. Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Department for Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement: provide for surface coal mining permits block process under specified conditions. 27. Public Protection and Regulation, Alcohol Beverage Control: provide for Restricted Funds generated by the fee, license, and permit charges authorized by 1998 House Bill 550 to be deposited in the General Fund. 28. Council on Postsecondary, Regional Postsecondary Education Centers: provide process for resolution of disputes. 29. Tourism Development, Department of Parks: transfer Sleepy Hollow Golf Course and the Coal Mine Museum to the Department of Parks. 30. Revise project title of Priority # 27 to Springfield Water and Wastewater Projects. 31. Revise project title of Priority # 57 to City of Lebanon Community Center. 32. Revise project title of Priority # 69 to Jessamine/Mercer/Boyle Counties and allocate $850,000 to Camp Nelson - Civil War Battlefield Trust and $20,000 to Burgin Independent School System. 33. Revise project scope and designate projects in Multiple Projects Pool, Priority # 86. 34. Revise project scope and designate projects in Miscellaneous Projects Pool, Priority # 144. 35. Revise project scope and designate projects in Consolidated Projects Pool, Priority # 146. 36. Justice Cabinet, State Police: provide additional General Fund operating support of $640,300 in fiscal year 1998-99 and $634,000 in fiscal year 1999-2000. 37. Justice Cabinet, Corrections: provide $2,160,800 in each fiscal year for contracting 200 additional minimum security private prisons beds at Otter Creek Correctional Complex starting July 1, 1998, based on per diem rate of $29.60 per bed. 38. General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan: provide a combined two-year $450,530,000 Plan. with contingent annual appropriations and related maximum amounts for component funds; provide $110,000,000 for Endowed Chairs; $107,730,000 for priority project items; $127,000,000, for bond-supported projects, with annual debt service in Operating Budget; $93,500,000 for State Technology projects; and $42,000,000 for Budget Reserve Trust Fund; provide for additional deposit of excess General Fund Surplus resources to enable Budget Reserve Trust Fund balance to total 5% of actual General Fund revenue receipts; and revise Plan to conform to the Conference Budget Report.
     FCCR (Minority Report) - Retain the provisions of FCCR # 1 and make the following changes: delete provision relating to alcohol and drug counselor certification; revise project scope and designate projects in the Multiple Projects Pool (Priority # 86); revise project title to Priority # 106 to Simpson County - Industrial Park; revise project title of a project in Priority # 144, Miscellaneous Projects Pool to Pineville Senior Citizen Center; and revise language of provision relating to school-based decision making councils.

     Jan 20-introduced in House
     Jan 21-to Appropriations and Revenue (H)
     Mar 2-posted in committee
     Mar 6-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar; recommitted to Appropriations and Revenue (H)
     Mar 10-reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
     Mar 11-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for March 12, 1998
     Mar 12-floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) and (14) filed to Committee Substitute
     Mar 13-3rd reading; floor amendments (4) and (6) withdrawn; floor amendment (12) ruled out of order; floor amendment (5) ruled not germane; passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute and floor amendments (3) (9) (11) and (13)
     Mar 16-received in Senate
     Mar 17-to Appropriations and Revenue (S)
     Mar 19-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Mar 20-2nd reading, to Rules
     Mar 23-recommitted to Appropriations and Revenue (S); reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for March 25, 1998
     Mar 25-floor amendment (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) and (19) filed to Committee Substitute; passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
     Mar 26-floor amendment (20) filed to Committee Substitute; floor amendments (6) and (11) withdrawn; 3rd reading,; floor amendments (16) (18) and (20) withdrawn ; floor amendments (2) (3) (4) (12) and (15) defeated ; floor amendment (19) ruled out of order; passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute, floor amendments (1) (5) (7) (8) (9) (10) (13) (14) and (17)
     Mar 27-received in House; posted for passage for concurrence in Senate amendments; House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute and floor amendments (1) (5) (7) (8) (9) (10) (13) (14) and (17); Conference Committee appointed in House
     Mar 30-received in Senate; posted for passage for receding from Senate amendments on March 30, 1998; Senate refused to recede from Senate Committee Substitute and Senate floor amendments (1) (5) (7) (8) (9) (10) (13) (14) and (17); Conference Committee appointed in Senate; received in House; Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate; House and Senate adopted Conference Committee report; Conference Committee report adopted in Senate; Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
     Apr 2-Free Conference Committee report #1 filed in House and Senate; Free Conference Committee report #2 filed in House and Senate; House adopted Free Conference Committee reports #1 and #2; passed 92-0; Senate adopted Free Conference Committee reports #1 and #2; passed 34-1; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer, delivered to Governor
     Apr 14-line items vetoed
     Apr 15-veto(es) not acted upon
     Apr 16-signed by Governor
     Apr 17-delivered to Secretary of State

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