KRS 48.500: Interpretation of branch budget bills -- Legislative review.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, when the General Assembly is not in

session, all questions that arise as to the meaning of items in a branch budget bill

shall be decided by the Finance and Administration Cabinet for the executive

branch budget b ill and the Transportation Cabinet budget bill, and by the Chief

Justice and the Legislative Research Commission for their respective branches of

government.

(2) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Chief Justice, and the

Legislative Research Commission shall transmit decisions made under subsection

(1) of this section to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue of

the Legislative Research Commission and shall include, in detail, the reasons for

such decisions.

(3) If the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue disapproves a

decision made under this section, the decision shall not be implemented 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.