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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency."
description: "Create new sections of KRS Chapter 176 to define terms relating to Local Assistance Road Program funding; require the Transportation Cabinet to establish procedures whereby cities and counties can submit projects for consideration in the Local Assistance Road Program; limit projects to those that are rehabilitative in nature and do not expand capacity or the design of the original road; limit state funding for any individual project to $500,000; require the cabinet to assign a score to each project evaluating the project's impact on safety, congestion, asset management, and cost; set deadlines for local government submission of projects and cabinet submission of projects with evaluative scores; establish a graduated local funding match requirement based on the county population ranking developed by the Cabinet for Economic Development under KRS 154.21-015; require the cabinet to report quarterly to the Legislative Research Commission on the activity relating to projects awarded grants; specify required elements of the report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "HB 546"
citation: "Kentucky HB 546 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Budget and Financial Administration", "Cities", "Counties", "Highways", "Streets", "and Bridges", "Reports Mandated", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 55
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ead1b3b-0b71-45fc-92f0-e1082f850877"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb546.html"
source_hash: "758b5fc76308d108ed1c1e408074ff90fa22d331bdcb97609e8f0056fba9f7cf"
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 546 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 176 to define terms relating to Local Assistance Road Program funding; require the Transportation Cabinet to establish procedures whereby cities and counties can submit projects for consideration in the Local Assistance Road Program; limit projects to those that are rehabilitative in nature and do not expand capacity or the design of the original road; limit state funding for any individual project to $500,000; require the cabinet to assign a score to each project evaluating the project's impact on safety, congestion, asset management, and cost; set deadlines for local government submission of projects and cabinet submission of projects with evaluative scores; establish a graduated local funding match requirement based on the county population ranking developed by the Cabinet for Economic Development under KRS 154.21-015; require the cabinet to report quarterly to the Legislative Research Commission on the activity relating to projects awarded grants; specify required elements of the report.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb546/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 108** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0108.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb546/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- Override Veto Final Passage HB 546 — **32–6** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage — **74–6** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **85–11** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 546 W/ scs1 scta1 — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage — **77–16** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage HB 546 fccr1 — **34–0** (pass) · lower
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** to Appropriations & Revenue (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 27, 2025
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 85-11 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Transportation (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Transportation (S)
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Transportation (S)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee report adopted in House and Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 34-0 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee report adopted in House
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 74-6 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** line items vetoed `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** posted for consideration of Governor's veto
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** veto overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** passed 77-16 `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** veto overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** passed 32-6 `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 108) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ead1b3b-0b71-45fc-92f0-e1082f850877`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).