(1) An unbudgeted appropriation shall not be allotted without prior review and action by the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue as provided for in this section.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any request for allotment of unbudgeted appropriations from any fund source shall be made in writing by the head of the budget unit and transmitted simultaneously to the state budget director and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 48.630

  • Account: is a technical accounting term meaning a formal record in which related transactions and events, (i. See Kentucky Statutes 48.010
  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Appropriation: means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 48.010
  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Budget: means the complete financial plan for each fiscal year contained in a branch budget bill provided for by this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 48.010
  • Disbursement: means cash actually paid out for any purpose. See Kentucky Statutes 48.010
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources or both together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities in accordance with legal restrictions or other limitations, to include:
    (a) "General Fund. See Kentucky Statutes 48.010
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • written: means letters, words, or numbers, or their equivalent, set down by handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, magnetic impulse, mechanical or electronic recording, or other form of data compilation. See Kentucky Statutes 48.010

(3) The state budget director may recommend a proposed revision to a specified appropriation in any branch budget bill to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue by the seventh day of each month.
(4) If the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue fails to review and act upon the proposed revision by the last day of the month, the proposed revision shall be deemed to have been reviewed and favorably acted upon.
(5) The Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue shall review the proposed expenditure of the unbudgeted appropriation for conformance with the purposes of the proposed appropriation and the enacted branch budget bill and any other relevant statute, by the last day of each month.
(6) If the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue disapproves of the proposed revision of the enacted appropriation, the budget adjustment shall be invalid unless it is:
(a) Revised to comply with the objections of the committee; or
(b) The committee is informed, in writing, in detail, within thirty (30) days of the committee’s disapproval, that a determination has been made not to comply with the objections of the committee.
(7) If an emergency unbudgeted appropriation revision is required due to a declared natural disaster, calamity, or impending deficit in an enacted appropriation as certified by the Governor, the state budget director may effect an emergency revised appropriation, with the approval of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, and with concurrent notification to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue of the action and its justification.
(8) If a budget unit not listed in any enacted branch budget bill receives unanticipated restricted funds or federal funds, the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, upon written request from the agency head with appropriate documentation of the amount, source, purpose, necessity, and use of the moneys, may authorize the credit and expenditure of these funds for statutory purposes, upon recommendation of the state budget director and review and action by the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue pursuant to the conditions and procedures prescribed by this section. The secretary shall cause to be established a separate discrete restricted funds or federal funds account, as appropriate, for the receipt and disbursement of these funds and shall establish the maximum sum which may be credited and expended from the authorized account.
(9) Institutions of higher education shall be exempt from all conditions and procedures
in this section with respect to the authority of the state budget director and the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to review and approve unbudgeted restricted funds or federal funds or revisions to appropriations in excess of any enacted branch budget bill; however, in the event of a revision, an institution of higher education shall report unbudgeted restricted funds and federal funds to the state budget director and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.
(10) Unbudgeted appropriations for expenditure in the judicial branch budget and the legislative branch budget shall be exempt from all conditions and procedures in this section, except that each branch head, or its designee, shall report unbudgeted restricted funds and federal funds to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue and transmit an informational copy to the state budget director.
(11) The Legislative Research Commission shall maintain records of the findings of the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue and the determinations and reports of actions by the state budget director and transmit these records to the General Assembly when next convened.
Effective: June 8, 2011
History: Amended 2011 Ky. Acts ch. 73, sec. 14, effective June 8, 2011. — Created
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 387, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1994.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See Judicial Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 162, Pt.
III, 8 at 984.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. III, 2 at 1749.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. III, 3 at 1749.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. III, 38 at 1754.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See Legislative Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 200, Pt. III, 6 at 1765.