The latest legislation creates a Kentucky 2025 flood aid fund

In a replacement of the last-minute committee of an unrelated draft law, the representative of GOP, Jason Petrie, the president of the loans and revenues of the house, advanced a draft law to start approaching the recent disaster that passed through the east Kentucky last month, causing floods, landslides and land damage.

The draft law of the House 544, recently, would not fit with new money. Creates the new fund and sets parameters for financing. It also allows the Andy Beshear government to move funds from two disaster funds created in 2022 – the Western Kentucky risk assistance fund and the Eksfe Fund – in the new PO.

“This will be a draft law to start the conversation to address flood exemption in eastern Kentucky, with the latest flood event for which there was a presidential statement,” said Petrie.

Petrie, from Elkton, refers to accelerated the major state disaster statementwhich includes 14 counties. Since Thursday, 24 Kentuckians have been killed due to flood and frost temperatures.

State agencies, local, non -profit administrations, public utilities and school districts would be eligible to receive money from the new “Fund 4860 Safe” to repair public disaster public buildings, as reimbursement of disasters and recovery, planning efforts for reconstruction and many more. Financial support is especially forbidden for new construction Within 100 years of flood zones.

In previous Kentucky catastrophes, many local administrations did not have money at hand to cope with emergencies, which created problems in the program for the reimbursement of local emergency management governments. In the effort to provide some flexibility to the countries and related organizations, the SAFE 4860 fund may also be advanced while waiting for federal refunds. The money will then be returned to the fund once the federal aid comes.

“It can also be an impact on the revenues I would receive by virtue of the disaster,” Petrie said, “and this helps with the short -term physical liquidity.”

Petrie said in the meeting that up to $ 48 million will be allowed to transfer from the two previous emergency funds in the current year.

Beshear previously asked the legislator to eliminate a ceiling for the emergency expenses that the Republican controlled legislator imposed on his administration in the draft budget law last year.

In the two -year budget approved last year, the General Assembly included a limit of $ 25 million per fiscal year for the operations of the Kentucky National Guard, when the governor declares an emergency and a limit of $ 50 million for the expenses by the Kentucky military business department to suit the Federal Federal Financing.

Democrats from the commission questioned in the draft law provided sufficient financing on Tuesday to properly treat urgently and if the legislature could be obliged to return to more. Petrie said the administration is still working to get estimates.

A spokesman for the governor’s office did not immediately return a comment request regarding the legislation.

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