2024 Regular Session - Day 22 - HB 6, Rep. Jason Petrie

just to make sure we're on the right Page House Bill six as introduced Remains the Same and we have house committee sub one adopted before us and the changes with the sub from the originally filed build are as follows um we reduced vacancy credits that applied to all agencies and Exempted critical need classifications and Corrections State Police Veterans Affairs and other agencies as applicable corrected an issue in the print out where debt service was included but there may have been projects that were not listed that's been corrected funded the HVAC system replacement at the Ratcliffe Veteran Center clarified technical language issues at the request of various agencies and the executive branch increased NG Authority in military Affairs and Corrections added language requests about Administration providing NG authority to the Appropriations is not otherwise classified budget unit anoch remove language pertaining to fees that appeared in the originally filed bill that was separated and will be properly referenced in a as a revenue matter uh updated the seek appropriation unit with new data provided by the Department of Education increased K12 transportation funding in the second year to 100% from what was had been proposed at 90 clarified the reimbursement language for school resource officer uh reimbursement program for local districts provide a general fund for $ 45 new positions and unemployment insurance budget unit to fully Implement House Bill 4 from 2022 and is modified in 2023 provided general fund to replace lost federal funds to support the eight area health education centers ahex included language to allocate the Kentucky access fund to properly to Medicaid benefits uh provide additional funds to complete construction of State Police post in Richmond and Harland added NG Authority up to 5 million in the current year and 10 million in the next two years for Corrections included 10 million in general fund for the Kentucky Healthcare Workforce investment fund established by the 2023 session of the general assembly by virtue of House Bill 200 filed by the gentleman from Jefferson 48 corrected the retirement subsidy issue for the regional universities included $1.5 million maintenance pool for the Horse Park clarified executive order reporting language in part three made some technical Corrections pertaining to Little Sandy Correctional Complex medical cost incorrection and a language change on substance for public advocacy Department regarding the alternative sentencing those are the changes from the originally filed Bill House Bill six and just to give a quick overview Mr Speaker approximately if you look at the house bill six executive branch Transportation capital and we look at legislative and judicial you'll look at about general fund Appropriations or expenditures in 25 of 14.3 billion plus those same categories in 26 you'd be looking at about 15.6 billion and roughly if you look at all funding sources in the executive branch budget that we have in House Bill six we well over $60 billion doll from all Source fund sources in each of the fiscal Years you'll note there's a fairly large jump in expenditures between 25 and 26 fy2 FY 26 uh three of which I'll just note there is a first a Medicaid benefits increase of about 544 million second teachers retirement system increased Actuarial contributions and other the normal course of what we've been establishing since 17 of $190 million in K12 education an increase of about $141 million between the two years you add those together and on those three items alone it'll total up to about 875 million of the 1.2 billion increase or approximately between those two years