Kentucky House Bill 203 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on April 27 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-04-27 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 209)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [PDF]

The Judicial Branch Budget: appropriate $440,265,200 in fiscal year 2018-2019 and $445,291,600 in fiscal year 2019-2020 from the General Fund, Restricted Funds, and Federal Funds; provide General Fund moneys for pay equity initiative; provide General Fund moneys for defined calculations; provide General Fund moneys to replace Federal Funds; provide that funds in the Court Operations and Administration appropriation unit carry forward; provide that if the Supreme Court retains the 2008 increase in civil filing fees, the additional income, not to exceed $5,000,000 in each fiscal year, shall be deposited in a trust and agency account for court operations; provide General Fund moneys for local facility assessments; provide General Fund moneys for increased CERS rates on janitorial and maintenance staff in judicial centers and courthouses; provide funds to compensate local units of government for providing court space and for costs incurred in the development of local court facilities; provide that funds in the Local Facilities Fund carry forward; provide that funds in the Local Facilities Use Allowance Contingency Fund carry forward; provide funds for actuarial-assessed judicial retirement benefits; detail project scope and use allowance payments for Bath, Butler, Crittenden, Jessamine, and Jefferson County court houses; authorize lease purchase of a Court of Appeals office building in Franklin County; provide General Fund support for use allowance payments for Jefferson County; defer General Fund support for operating costs, annualized use allowance payments, and nonrecurring furniture and equipment costs for Bath, Butler, Crittenden, and Jessamine Counties to the 2020-2022 fiscal biennium; authorize leases; clarify that nothing in this bill shall reduce funding of court facility projects authorized by the General Assembly; provide that if a court facility project is occupied and use allowance funding is insufficient that use allowance payments must be approved from the Local Facilities Use Allowance Contingency Fund, or if funds are not available in the Local Facilities Use Allowance Contingency Fund, the use allowance payments shall be deemed a necessary government expense; provide the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts with expenditure authority; provide for severability of budget provisions and priority of individual appropriations; declare that KRS 48.312 controls duplicate appropriations; clarify that KRS 48.313 controls when a total or subtotal of the bill conflicts with a sum of the appropriations of which it consists; provide that any unexpended balance remaining in the Court's Restricted Funds or Federal Funds accounts carry forward; provide for the final budget document; provide for the transferability of funds; provide for appropriations revisions; include funds for trial commissioner salaries as provided for in the Judicial Branch Budget Recommendation; provide that issuance of paychecks scheduled for June 30, 2018, June 30, 2019, and June 30, 2020, shall not be issued prior to July 1, 2018, July 1, 2019, and July 1, 2020; provide for participation in any Budget Reduction Plan or Surplus Expenditure Plan.

AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Judicial Branch of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, boards, commissions, subdivisions, and other state-supported activities.

Rep. Steven Rudy [R]

Rep. Jason Nemes [R]

2018-04-02 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 457 (Y: 81 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 10) [PASS]
2018-04-02 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/FCCR RSN# 697 (Y: 35 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-03-20 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/SCS 1 RSN# 574 (Y: 26 N: 12 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-03-01 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 203 (Y: 84 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 7) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-04-27	Senate	delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 209)
2018-04-14	Senate	returned to Rules
2018-04-14	Senate	placed in the Orders of the Day for Friday, April 14, 2018
2018-04-14	Senate	taken from Rules (H)
2018-04-14	Senate	to Rules (H)
2018-04-13	Senate	received in House
2018-04-13	House	line items vetoed
2018-04-02	House	delivered to Governor
2018-04-02	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2018-04-02	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2018-04-02	House	Bill passed 81-9
2018-04-02	House	posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
2018-04-02	House	taken from Rules
2018-04-02	House	Free Conference Committee report adopted in House
2018-04-02	House	to Rules (H)
2018-04-02	House	Free Conference Committee report filed in House
2018-04-02	House	received in House
2018-04-02	Senate	Bill passed 35-3
2018-04-02	Senate	Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
2018-04-02	Senate	Free Conference Committee report filed in Senate
2018-03-22	Senate	Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
2018-03-22	Senate	Conference Committee report adopted in House
2018-03-22	Senate	Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
2018-03-22	Senate	Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate
2018-03-22	Senate	Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
2018-03-22	Senate	Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1)
2018-03-22	Senate	posted for passage for receding from Senate for Thursday, March 22, 2018
2018-03-21	Senate	received in Senate
2018-03-21	House	House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute
2018-03-21	House	posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
2018-03-21	House	taken from Rules
2018-03-21	House	to Rules (H)
2018-03-21	House	received in House
2018-03-20	Senate	3rd reading, passed 26-12 with Committee Substitute (1)
2018-03-20	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 20, 2018
2018-03-20	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
2018-03-16	Senate	returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2018-03-16	Senate	2nd reading
2018-03-16	Senate	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2018-03-15	Senate	returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2018-03-15	Senate	1st reading
2018-03-15	Senate	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2018-03-06	Senate	to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2018-03-02	Senate	received in Senate
2018-03-01	House	3rd reading, passed 84-8 with Committee Substitute
2018-03-01	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 1, 2018
2018-03-01	House	taken from Rules (H)
2018-02-28	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2018-02-28	House	reported favorably with Committee Substitute
2018-02-22	House	posted in committee
2018-02-16	House	returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2018-02-16	House	1st reading
2018-02-16	House	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2018-01-18	House	to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2018-01-16	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB203.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB203/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB203/HCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB203/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB203/CCR1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB203/FCCR1.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB203/vote_history.pdf