Public Act 252 of 2006

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• Introduced by Rep. Harry Moberly, Jr. (D) on January 17, 2006, to appropriate from the General Fund, General Fund-(Tobacco), Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Highway Bonds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $385,056,000 in fiscal year 2005-06, $24,457,258,500 in fiscal year 2006-07 and $22,289,594,500 in fiscal year 2007-08.
  • Referred to the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee on January 18, 2006.
  • Reported in the House on February 21, 2006, favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar.
  • Substitute offered in the House on March 5, 2006, to appropriate from the General Fund, General Fund (Tobacco), Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Highway Bonds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $389,250,100 in fiscal year 2005-2006, $25,579,589,400 in fiscal year 2006-2007, and $22,522,977,500 in fiscal year 2007-2008.
  • The substitute passed in the House by voice vote on March 7, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Jimmie Lee (D) on March 6, 2006, to increase private child care providers rates by $2 per day in FY 2006-07 and by an additional $2 per day in FY 2007-08. The amendment would create an incentive pool for private child care providers to serve hard to place youth.
  • The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 7, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Kevin D. Bratcher (R) on March 6, 2006, to require the Louisville Arena Authority, Inc. to be an entity attached to Louisville Metro Government, subjecting it to procurement and ethics restrictions. The amendment would require the Authority to consider alternative site studies and to select the site for the arena.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bob M. DeWeese (R) on March 6, 2006, to provide site specific language for location of a sports arena.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bob M. DeWeese (R) on March 6, 2006, to require that the Louisville Arena Authority be established under the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government and require the members' compliance with local government's procurement and ethics code. The amendment would require the Authority to consider other arena site studies and choose the Arena's eventual location in Louisville.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Tim Couch (R) on March 6, 2006, to revise allocation of coal severance funds in Leslie County.
  • The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 7, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Farmer (R) on March 6, 2006, to exempt certain corporations from the alternative minimum calculation of corporate income tax based on income.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Paul H. Marcotte (R) on March 6, 2006, to change purpose of Kentucky Community and Technical College System project from design to construct and scope of project from $1,000,000 to $26,607,000.
  • The amendment failed in the House by voice vote on March 7, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Jeffrey Hoover (R) on March 6, 2006, to change the LRC's ability to evaluate Economic Development initiatives.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bob M. DeWeese (R) on March 6, 2006, to remove site specific language from discussion of the Louisville arena.
  • The amendment failed in the House (39 to 53) on March 7, 2006. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Joseph M. Fischer (R) on March 6, 2006, to provide funding for school projects through cost reductions due to repeal of the prevailing wage law.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Harry Moberly, Jr. (D) on March 6, 2006, to amend Homeland Security project list. The amendment would amend projects funded under the Governor's Office of Local Development. The amendment would add language regarding use of new money for the Auditor of Public Accounts. The amendment would amend language relating to the teacher's retirement system and amend language relating to infrastructure funding for performing arts centers. The amendment would add language relating to the levy of taxes by school districts and amend language relating to local school district certified and classified employee pay policy. The amendment would increase funding for diabetes services in FY 2007-2008 and move funding for the Lancaster Campus from KCTCS to Eastern Kentucky University. The amendment would authorize equine hospital construction for Morehead State and increase funding for LCC Winchester Facility. The amendment would increase funding for Ashland CTC and provide funding for Madisonville Postsecondary Education Center. The amendment would amend coal severance projects and water projects. The amendment would also exempt small wineries from certain tax liability.
  • The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 7, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Joe Barrows (D) on March 6, 2006, to delete line item projects in the Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Non-Coal Producing Counties.
  • The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 7, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Joe Barrows (D) on March 6, 2006, to adjust projects in the Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Non-Coal Producing Counties project list.
• Passed in the House (97 to 0) on March 7, 2006, an amended bill to appropriate 3% more over the biennium than the introduced budget. The amended bill would appropriate from the General Fund, General Fund (Tobacco), Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Highway Bonds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $389,250,100 in fiscal year 2005-2006, $25,579,589,400 in fiscal year 2006-2007, and $22,522,977,500 in fiscal year 2007-2008. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on March 8, 2006.
  • Referred to the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee on March 10, 2006.
  • Substitute offered in the Senate on March 21, 2006, to appropriate from the General Fund, General Fund (Tobacco), Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Highway Bonds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $386,169,400 in fiscal year 2005-2006, $25,987,036,500 in fiscal year 2006-2007, and $22,517,886,800 in fiscal year 2007-2008. The substitute would remove a requirement that an arena in Louisville be built in a particular location for the purposes of state funding. The substitute also provides additional General Fund support in the SEEK base of $8,600,000 in fiscal year 2007-2008 for two additional instructional days. The substitute would provide a flat dollar salary adjustment for state employees. This adjustment ranges from $400 to $1,350 per employee. The substitute would also leave around $141 million in the state's budget reserve trust fund – the “rainy day fund” – while the House version left $38 million in state reserves. The substitute concurs with a House-approved pay raise for all Kentucky public school teachers. The substitute passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Charlie Borders (R) on March 21, 2006, to provide $1 million from the General Fund for upkeep and maintenance of the statewide mobile data infrastructure. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Alice Kerr (R) on March 21, 2006, to increase the benchmark funding for postsecondary education institutions by $10,000,000 in each fiscal year of the biennium. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Dan Kelly (R) on March 21, 2006, to increase funding for operational costs for the Council on Postsecondary Education by $1,000,000 each fiscal year of the biennium. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Charlie Borders (R) on March 21, 2006, to amend Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Coal-Producing Counties (A) projects in Harlan County and Menifee County.
    • Withdrawn in the Senate on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Charlie Borders (R) on March 21, 2006, to revise single-county coal severance tax projects for Carter, Clay, Floyd, Greenup, Hancock, Harlan, Hopkins, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Magoffin, Menifee, Owsley, and Perry Counties. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Charlie Borders (R) on March 21, 2006, to earmark $90,000 to establish an Osteoporosis Prevention and Education Program in the Department of Public Health. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Dan Kelly (R) on March 21, 2006, to make conforming changes to reflect appropriation increases in other adopted committee amendments to the State/Executive Branch Budget. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on March 21, 2006.
• Passed in the Senate (38 to 0) on March 21, 2006, to appropriate from the General Fund, General Fund (Tobacco), Road Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Bond Funds, Highway Bonds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, and other funds, $386,169,400 in fiscal year 2005-2006, $25,987,036,500 in fiscal year 2006-2007, and $22,517,886,800 in fiscal year 2007-2008. The bill would remove a requirement that an arena in Louisville be built in a particular location for the purposes of state funding. The bill would removed House language that directs the Legislative Research Commission to evaluate the state's use of tax incentives for economic development. The bill also provides additional General Fund support in the SEEK base of $8,600,000 in fiscal year 2007-2008 for two additional instructional days. The bill would provide a flat dollar salary adjustment for state employees. This adjustment ranges from $400 to $1,350 per employee. The bill would also leave around $141 million in the state's budget reserve trust fund – the “rainy day fund” – while the House version left $38 million in state reserves. The bill concurs with a House-approved pay raise for all Kentucky public school teachers. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on March 22, 2006.
  • Substitute offered in the House on April 10, 2006, a free conference committee report to spend $18.1-billion over two years. The bill would create $2.38-billion in new debt. The bill would provide Kentucky public school teachers with more than $4100 pay raises over two years. The bill would raise state worker salaries by up to $1350 in one year. The bill would lock-in an otherwise temporary gasoline tax at 1.1-cents per gallon in order to finance $350-million in new debt for road construction. The bill includes $185-million for construction of two bridges spanning the Ohio River in Louisville, $75-million for a basketball arena in Louisville, $68-million for state park improvements and $25-million for a new hotel in Lexington. The bill would permit up to $10,000,000 in Road Fund moneys to be used for the development, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of airport runways, aprons, and taxiways at public airports and public use airports. The bill would provide a total of $55,300,000 for the Kentucky River Locks and Dams Maintenance and Renovations Pool. The bill would provide an additional $100,000,000 in offers of assistance from the School Facilities Construction Commission during the biennium with the anticipation of debt service being provided during the 2008-2010 biennium. The bill also would provide $6-million for a polar bear exhibit at the Louisville Zoo.
• Passed in the House (98 to 2) on April 11, 2006, a free conference committee report to spend $18.1-billion over two years. The bill would create $2.38-billion in new debt. The bill would provide Kentucky public school teachers with more than $4100 pay raises over two years. The bill would raise state worker salaries by up to $1350 in one year. The bill would lock-in an otherwise temporary gasoline tax at 1.1-cents per gallon in order to finance $350-million in new debt for road construction. The bill includes $185-million for construction of two bridges spanning the Ohio River in Louisville, $75-million for a basketball arena in Louisville, $68-million for state park improvements and $25-million for a new hotel in Lexington. The bill would permit up to $10,000,000 in Road Fund moneys to be used for the development, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of airport runways, aprons, and taxiways at public airports and public use airports. The bill would provide a total of $55,300,000 for the Kentucky River Locks and Dams Maintenance and Renovations Pool. The bill would provide an additional $100,000,000 in offers of assistance from the School Facilities Construction Commission during the biennium with the anticipation of debt service being provided during the 2008-2010 biennium. The bill also would provide $6-million for a polar bear exhibit at the Louisville Zoo. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on March 22, 2006.
  • Substitute offered in the Senate on April 10, 2006, a free conference committee report to spend $18.1-billion over two years. The bill would create $2.38-billion in new debt. The bill would provide Kentucky public school teachers with more than $4100 pay raises over two years. The bill would raise state worker salaries by up to $1350 in one year. The bill would lock-in an otherwise temporary gasoline tax at 1.1-cents per gallon in order to finance $350-million in new debt for road construction. The bill includes $185-million for construction of two bridges spanning the Ohio River in Louisville, $75-million for a basketball arena in Louisville, $68-million for state park improvements and $25-million for a new hotel in Lexington. The bill would permit up to $10,000,000 in Road Fund moneys to be used for the development, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of airport runways, aprons, and taxiways at public airports and public use airports. The bill would provide a total of $55,300,000 for the Kentucky River Locks and Dams Maintenance and Renovations Pool. The bill would provide an additional $100,000,000 in offers of assistance from the School Facilities Construction Commission during the biennium with the anticipation of debt service being provided during the 2008-2010 biennium. The bill also would provide $6-million for a polar bear exhibit at the Louisville Zoo.
• Passed in the Senate (38 to 0) on April 10, 2006, a free conference committee report to spend $18.1-billion over two years. The bill would create $2.38-billion in new debt. The bill would provide Kentucky public school teachers with more than $4100 pay raises over two years. The bill would raise state worker salaries by up to $1350 in one year. The bill would lock-in an otherwise temporary gasoline tax at 1.1-cents per gallon in order to finance $350-million in new debt for road construction. The bill includes $185-million for construction of two bridges spanning the Ohio River in Louisville, $75-million for a basketball arena in Louisville, $68-million for state park improvements and $25-million for a new hotel in Lexington. The bill would permit up to $10,000,000 in Road Fund moneys to be used for the development, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of airport runways, aprons, and taxiways at public airports and public use airports. The bill would provide a total of $55,300,000 for the Kentucky River Locks and Dams Maintenance and Renovations Pool. The bill would provide an additional $100,000,000 in offers of assistance from the School Facilities Construction Commission during the biennium with the anticipation of debt service being provided during the 2008-2010 biennium. The bill also would provide $6-million for a polar bear exhibit at the Louisville Zoo. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Ernie Fletcher on April 24, 2006, a free conference committee report to spend nearly $18.1-billion over two years. The bill included line item vetos that would create $2.1-billion in new debt. The bill would provide Kentucky public school teachers with more than $4100 pay raises over two years. The bill would raise state worker salaries by up to $1350 in one year. The bill would lock-in an otherwise temporary gasoline tax at 1.1-cents per gallon in order to finance $350-million in new debt for road construction. The bill includes $185-million for construction of two bridges spanning the Ohio River in Louisville, $75-million for a basketball arena in Louisville, $68-million for state park improvements and $25-million for a new hotel in Lexington. The Governor's line-item vetos of the General Assembly's budget are included here.