---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Legislative Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund $69,693,900 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $71,248,700 for fiscal year 2019-20020; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2019-2020, with appropriations allocated as follows:"
description: "AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Legislative Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund $69,693,900 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $71,248,700 for fiscal year 2019-20020; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2019-2020, with appropriations allocated as follows:"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2018RS"
identifier: "HB 204"
citation: "Kentucky HB 204 (2018RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Rudy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 47
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec0aeb27-4fdb-45ce-8b04-24949709a435"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB204.htm"
source_hash: "6ec96f7ea63add7798ec9b3f5805cd0e514263353f44c80630b4ceed93119e58"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 204 (2018RS) — AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Legislative Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund $69,693,900 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $71,248,700 for fiscal year 2019-20020; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2019-2020, with appropriations allocated as follows:

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 204 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB204/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB204/HCS1.pdf)
3. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB204/bill.pdf)
4. **SCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB204/SCS1.pdf)

## Sponsors

- S. Rudy — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-07** To Appropriations & Revenue (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2018-02-16** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2018-02-16** Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2018-02-22** Posted in committee
- **2018-02-28** Reported favorably with Committee Substitute
- **2018-02-28** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Taken from Rules (H)
- **2018-03-01** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 1, 2018
- **2018-03-01** 3rd reading, passed 83-7 with Committee Substitute `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Received in Senate
- **2018-03-06** To Appropriations & Revenue (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
- **2018-03-15** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2018-03-15** Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
- **2018-03-16** Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
- **2018-03-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-16** Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
- **2018-03-20** Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
- **2018-03-20** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 20, 2018
- **2018-03-20** 3rd reading, passed 36-2 with Committee Substitute (1) `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-21** Received in House
- **2018-03-21** To Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute
- **2018-04-02** House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2018-04-02** Passed 86-8
- **2018-04-02** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-02** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-04-02** Delivered to Governor
- **2018-04-13** Line items
- **2018-04-13** Vetoed `executive-veto`
- **2018-04-13** Received in House
- **2018-04-14** To Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-14** Taken from Rules
- **2018-04-14** Posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
- **2018-04-14** Veto overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2018-04-14** Bill passed 74-12
- **2018-04-14** Received in Senate
- **2018-04-14** To Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-14** Posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
- **2018-04-14** Veto overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2018-04-14** Bill passed 35-0
- **2018-04-14** Received in House
- **2018-04-14** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-14** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-04-14** Delivered to Secretary of State (Acts, ch. 173) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec0aeb27-4fdb-45ce-8b04-24949709a435`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).