Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky HB870: AN ACT relating to public transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Status: In committee, March 10, 2026
Amend KRS 96A.096 to include voluntary contributions by a Kentucky employer up to 0.05% of the Kentucky employer's total payroll in the Kentucky public transportation development fund; require the fund to be administered by the Transportation Cabinet; require the moneys received from the voluntary contributions to be used for providing public transit for workforce mobility needs; specify how the moneys in the fund for public transit are distributed; require annual reporting to the Transportation Cabinet from each public transit system that receives money from the fund; require annual reporting from the Transportation Cabinet to the Legislative Research Commission; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define "public transportation contribution," "Kentucky public transportation development fund," and "transit authority"; establish the public transportation contribution credit for taxes imposed in KRS 141.020 or 141.040 and 141.0401 for public transportation contributions provided by a Kentucky employer; limit the credit to 50% of the total amount of the public transportation contribution made for the taxable year by the employer; require annual reporting by the Department of Revenue on the credits claimed; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit; appropriate $30 million in general fund moneys in each fiscal year of the 2026-2028 biennium to the Kentucky public transportation development fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
What the bill says
An act relating to public transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to public transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. KRS 96A.096 is amended to read as follows: (1) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the ["]Kentucky public transportation development fund.["] (2) The fund shall be administered by the Transportation Cabinet. (3) All moneys deposited[ or paid] into the[this] fund are appropriated and shall be available to the Transportation Cabinet for the purposes of KRS 96A.095 and[. All moneys in this fund] shall be expended for public transportation capital and operating subsidies, public transportation development, or administrative costs incidental to these developments. (4) The fund shall consist (b) Moneys[ and all money] received from the United States or from any other source for the purpose of providing public transportation capital and operating subsidies and public transportation development funds; and (c) Voluntary contributions made by Kentucky employers, which shall not exceed five-hundredths of one percent (0.05%) of the employer's total payroll. (5) All moneys in the[ Kentucky public transportation development] fund shall be deposited, administered, and dispersed in the same manner and under the same conditions and requirements as are provided by law for other special funds in the State Treasury, except that: (a) Moneys …
Sponsors
- Joshua Watkins (D, HD-042) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- : to Committee on Committees (H)
- : introduced in House
Subjects: State Agencies, Funds, Reports Mandated, Effective Dates, Emergency, Taxation, Taxation, Income--Individual, Appropriations, Transportation
Common questions
- What is HB870?
- HB870 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to public transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
- What does HB870 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to public transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
- What is the status of HB870?
- In committee as of March 10, 2026. Latest action: to Appropriations & Revenue (H) (March 10, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB870?
- Joshua Watkins (D, HD-042).
- Where is the official record for HB870?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/hb870.html
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