Kentucky 2018 Regular Session Status: Enacted 2 R cosponsors

HB 203 — 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. 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.

Last action — Delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 209)

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    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed House
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 16, 2018. Enacted.

Prognosis

Advancing 54% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 2 sponsors

    2 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (2 R).

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Bill Text

Action History

  1. Delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 209)

  2. Returned to Rules

  3. Placed in the Orders of the Day for Friday, April 14, 2018

  4. Taken from Rules (H)

  5. To Rules (H)

  6. Received in House

  7. Vetoed

  8. Line items

  9. Delivered to Governor

  10. Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate

  11. Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House

  12. Bill passed 81-9

  13. Posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)

  14. Taken from Rules

  15. Free Conference Committee report adopted in House

  16. To Rules (H)

  17. Free Conference Committee report filed in House

  18. Received in House

  19. Bill passed 35-3

  20. Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate

  21. Free Conference Committee report filed in Senate

  22. Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate

  23. Conference Committee report adopted in House

  24. Conference Committee report adopted in Senate

  25. Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate

  26. Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate

  27. Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1)

  28. Posted for passage for receding from Senate for Thursday, March 22, 2018

  29. Received in Senate

  30. House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute

  31. Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)

  32. Taken from Rules

  33. To Rules (H)

  34. Received in House

  35. 3rd reading, passed 26-12 with Committee Substitute (1)

  36. Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 20, 2018

  37. Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute

  38. Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  39. 2nd reading

  40. Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  41. Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  42. 1st reading

  43. Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  44. To Appropriations & Revenue (S)

  45. Received in Senate

  46. 3rd reading, passed 84-8 with Committee Substitute

  47. Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 1, 2018

  48. Taken from Rules (H)

  49. 2nd reading, to Rules

  50. Reported favorably with Committee Substitute

  51. Posted in committee

  52. Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)

  53. 1st reading

  54. Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)

  55. To Appropriations & Revenue (H)

  56. Introduced in House

Sponsors

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2 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 136 not signed on

Sponsors (2)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (136)

136 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 203?
HB 203 is sponsored by Jason Nemes (Republican) and Steven Rudy (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 203?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 16, 2018. Enacted.
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