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Ky. Rev. Stat. § 48.310 (2026)

Operation of budget bill

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(1) No provision of a branch budget bill shall be effective beyond the second fiscal year from the date of its enactment. A budget bill enacted at a special session or in an odd-numbered-year regular session of the General Assembly shall not be effective past July 1 of the year in which the next even-numbered-year regular session takes place.

(2) A budget bill may contain language which exempts the budget bill or any appropriation or the use thereof from the operation of a statute for the effective period of the budget bill. Effective: June 21, 2001 History: Amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 58, sec. 6, effective June 21, 2001. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 507, sec. 14, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 410, sec. 5, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 450, sec. 22, effective July 1, 1983.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1984–2022 · leading case: Beshear v. Haydon Bridge Co., Inc., 304 S.W.3d 682 (Ky. 2010).
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Beshear v. Haydon Bridge Co., Inc., 304 S.W.3d 682 (Ky. 2010). · cites it 15× “Moreover, in 1990, the General Assembly enacted KRS 48.310(2), which provides, “[a] budget bill may contain language which exempts the budget bill or any appropriation or the use thereof from the operation of a statute for the effective period of the budget bill.”
Fletcher v. Commonwealth, 163 S.W.3d 852 (Ky. 2005). · cites it 6× “§ 80, its provisions expire on "July 1 of the year in which the next even-numbered year regular session takes place." KRS 48.310(1). Prior to 2001, the General Assembly met in regular legislative session only for sixty legislative days in even-numbered years.”
Legislative Rsch. Comm'n Ex Rel. Prather v. Brown, 664 S.W.2d 907 (Ky. 1984). · cites it 4× “KRS 48.310 requires that the budget be introduced as a resolution, rather than as a bill.”
Klein v. Flanery, 439 S.W.3d 107 (Ky. 2014). · cites it 2× “3d at 703, KRS 48.310(2) provides more generally for the suspension of statutes in budget bills: “A budget bill may contain lailguage which exempts the budget bill or any appropriation or the use thereof from the operation of a statute for the effective period of the budget bill.”
Univ. of the Cumberlands v. Pennybacker, 308 S.W.3d 668 (Ky. 2010). · cites it 2× “Acts 252 , entitled "Pharmacy Scholarship Program", there is an actual preamble and it reads: "Notwithstanding KRS 48.310, the following statute is created to read as follows and shall have permanent effect, subject to future actions of the General Assembly".”
Grayson Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Casey, 157 S.W.3d 201 (Ky. 2005). “KRS 48.310(1); Commonwealth, ex rel. Armstrong v.”
Beshear v. Haydon Bridge Co., 416 S.W.3d 280 (Ky. 2013). “While the General Assembly in KRS 48.310(2) and 48.315 provided that a budget bill could be used to transfer KWCFC funds back to the General Fund, those transfers were necessarily limited by this Court’s holding in Armstrong v.”
Noland v. Dep't of Corr., 266 S.W.3d 249 (Ky. Ct. App. 2008). “See KRS 48.310. We believe that if the General Assembly intended to provide a remedial statute, it would have permanently amended KRS 439.”
James Lang v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (Ky. 2022). “Because Lang was not a parolee who had been returned to prison 14 KRS 48.310 states: (1) No provision of a branch budget bill shall be effective beyond the second fiscal year from the date of its enactment.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 48.310(1) — 2 cases
Fletcher v. Commonwealth, 163 S.W.3d 852 (Ky. 2005). “§ 80, its provisions expire on "July 1 of the year in which the next even-numbered year regular session takes place." KRS 48.310(1). Prior to 2001, the General Assembly met in regular legislative session only for sixty legislative days in even-numbered years.”
Grayson Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. Casey, 157 S.W.3d 201 (Ky. 2005). “KRS 48.310(1); Commonwealth, ex rel. Armstrong v.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 48.310(2) — 3 cases
Beshear v. Haydon Bridge Co., Inc., 304 S.W.3d 682 (Ky. 2010). “Moreover, in 1990, the General Assembly enacted KRS 48.310(2), which provides, “[a] budget bill may contain language which exempts the budget bill or any appropriation or the use thereof from the operation of a statute for the effective period of the budget bill.”
Klein v. Flanery, 439 S.W.3d 107 (Ky. 2014). “3d at 703, KRS 48.310(2) provides more generally for the suspension of statutes in budget bills: “A budget bill may contain lailguage which exempts the budget bill or any appropriation or the use thereof from the operation of a statute for the effective period of the budget bill.”
Beshear v. Haydon Bridge Co., 416 S.W.3d 280 (Ky. 2013). “While the General Assembly in KRS 48.310(2) and 48.315 provided that a budget bill could be used to transfer KWCFC funds back to the General Fund, those transfers were necessarily limited by this Court’s holding in Armstrong v.”
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