Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky HB304: AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions 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.
Status: In committee, January 16, 2026
The Governor's recommended State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; detail Part XII, Appropriations from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; APPROPRIATION.
What the bill says
An act relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions 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.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions 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. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. The State/Executive Branch Budget is as follows: PART I OPERATING BUDGET (1) Funds Appropriations: There is appropriated out of the General Fund, Road Fund, Restricted Funds accounts, Federal Funds accounts, or Bond Funds accounts for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, and for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2027, and ending June 30, 2028, the following discrete sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Appropriated funds are included pursuant to KRS 48.700 and 48.710. Each appropriation is made by source of respective fund or funds accounts. Appropriations for the following officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and budget units of the state government, and any and all other activities of the government of the Commonwealth, are subject to the provisions of Chapters 12, 42, 45, and 48 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes and compliance with the conditions and procedures set forth …