Kentucky 2024 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB752 Enrolled / Bill

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AN ACT relating to disaster recovery, making an appropriation therefor, and 1 
declaring an emergency. 2 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 3 
Section 1.   Notwithstanding KRS 39A.303(6) and (8), from the appropriation set 4 
out in 2022 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 6, there is hereby appropriated 5 
Restricted Funds from the East Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (EKSAFE) 6 
fund established in KRS 39A.303 in the amount of $11,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025 7 
to the Breathitt County school district for strained fiscal liquidity related to the impact of 8 
the Presidential Declaration of a Major Disaster, designated FEMA-4663-DR. 9 
Section 2. Notwithstanding KRS 39A.305(8) and (9), there is hereby 10 
appropriated Restricted Funds from the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for 11 
Emergencies (WKSAFE) fund established in KRS 39A.305 in the amount of $54,331,000 12 
in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Department for Local Government for strained fiscal 13 
liquidity in: 14 
(1) The City of Mayfield, in the amount of $48,231,000 for the electric and water 15 
systems, fire station #1, police station, and city hall; and 16 
(2) Graves County, in the amount of $6,100,000 for the administrative building. 17 
Section 3.   If a recipient of moneys from the EKSAFE or WKSAFE fund under 18 
Section 1 or 2 of this Act subsequently receives moneys from any other source, the 19 
recipient shall reimburse the Commonwealth for the amount of the moneys received from 20 
the EKSAFE or WKSAFE fund. All moneys reimbursed to the Commonwealth shall be 21 
deposited into the Budget Reserve Trust Fund account established in KRS 48.705 within 22 
30 days. The moneys appropriated in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act shall not lapse and shall 23 
carry forward until June 30, 2026. If the moneys are not encumbered by June 30, 2026, 24 
the moneys shall be returned to the Commonwealth and shall be deposited into the 25 
Budget Reserve Trust Fund account established in KRS 48.705 within 30 days. 26 
Section 4.   Whereas the continuing recovery from the December 2021 storms 27  UNOFFICIAL COPY  	24 RS HB 752/EN 
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and tornadoes and the July 2022 storms and flooding in Kentucky is of utmost 1 
importance to the citizens within those devasted areas, an emergency is declared to exist, 2 
and this Act takes effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor or upon its 3 
otherwise becoming a law. 4