A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to contingent appropriations.

2025 Regular Session

Authorizes release of contingent capital construction funds for KCTCS projects after the required proposal was submitted and approved.

signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 47)

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Purpose / Intent

HJR 34 is a joint resolution by the Kentucky General Assembly approving the release of capital construction funds that had been made contingent on certain requirements. The resolution implements a provision of 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 175, Part I, J., 11., (8) by confirming that the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), in collaboration with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), has submitted the required proposal and that contingent capital funds may be released to improve and advance the existing KCTCS system.

Key provisions

Formally approves the proposal submitted by KCTCS (working with CPE) required under 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 175, Part I, J., 11., (8).

Authorizes the Office of State Budget Director to release the capital construction funds referenced in that 2024 act so that related projects may proceed.

Does not specify dollar amounts, project-by-project authorizations, or recurring operating appropriations within the text of the joint resolution; it acts as the legislative approval required to trigger release of previously contingent capital funds.

Who/what is affected

Primary beneficiaries: Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) and the network of community and technical colleges whose capital projects were conditionally funded.

Collaborating agency: Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) (role in proposal and planning).

Administrative actor: Office of State Budget Director — empowered to release the capital construction funds.

Indirectly affected: students, faculty, local communities, and construction contractors engaged in campus improvements and capital projects.

Context & impact

The resolution implements a contingency in the 2024 budget law that required a proposal analyzing recommendations for improving KCTCS before capital funds could be released. With the proposal submitted and approved by the General Assembly via HJR 34, capital projects tied to that contingency are authorized to proceed.

No new appropriation amounts are created by HJR 34; it authorizes release of funds already appropriated conditionally in prior legislation.

Procedural timeline / status

Enacted as Acts Chapter 47 and signed by the Governor on March 19, 2025.

Sponsor: Guillen (primary).

The resolution moved through committee substitute, committee and floor action in early 2025 and was enrolled and delivered to the Governor in March 2025.

(If you need the underlying proposal text, the specific capital projects, or the dollar amounts tied to the original 2024 appropriation referenced by 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 175, Part I, J., 11., (8), I can locate and summarize those details.)

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