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Kentucky responses to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
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States employ a variety of processes to apply for and administer federal grants. Ballotpedia's 2021 state survey of the federal grant review process examined the general processes applied by the 50 states in order to seek and distribute federal funds.
Research from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that federal funds made up 32% (roughly $639 billion) of all state revenue in 2017, making them the second-largest source of state revenue behind state tax collections.[1] States direct federal funds to government programs related to education, healthcare, transportation, infrastructure, and other policies.[1]
This page features Kentucky's responses to Ballotpedia's 2021 survey.
Background
From August 5, 2021, to September 27, 2021, Ballotpedia staff contacted the executive and legislative budget offices of all 50 states via email and/or telephone to update a publicly available 2016 survey on state approaches to the federal grant review process.
Our staff contacted state officials with the following survey questions:
- Approval processes for federal grants
- What is your state’s process for federal grant applications and the approval process?
- What is your state’s approval process when the legislature is not in session?
- How does the legislature monitor the intent of federal grants? What legislative rules allow the state greater oversight of federal funds in the budgets?
- Contingency plans for the loss or decline of federal funds
- What is your state’s contingency plan in the case of a decline or loss of federal funds?
- Quality control processes for federal grants
- What is your state’s quality control process for tracking the effectiveness of federal funds?
- Does your state attempt to estimate the cost of federal fund requirements? If so, how?
- How does your state prioritize federal funds to best meet the needs of constituents?
- If your state doesn’t appropriate key federal funds like food stamps and unemployment benefits, are your state’s federal funds off-budget? How do you track this information?
Our staff also contacted state officials with the following two new survey questions regarding federal funds made available in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic:
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic funds
- Who has decision rights over American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations in your state?
- Who has decision rights over Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund allocations in your state?
Kentucky 2021 survey responses
What is your state’s process for federal grant applications and the approval process?
“Response limited to applications for competitive, non-formula allocations of federal grants: Kentucky Revised Statutes, KRS 45.031, requires each state government entity, excluding public postsecondary education institutions, to communicate their intention to apply for a competitive federal grant to a central state agency and if a state matching requirement is applicable, they must receive approval from a central state agency. There is an associated reporting requirement upon the receipt of a grant award.”
What is the approval process when the legislature is not in session?
“Kentucky Revised Statutes, KRS 45.031, also provides, “Any application for federal funds, aids, loans, or grants which will require state matching or replacement funds at the time of application or at any time in the future, when funds have not been appropriated for that express purpose, must be approved by the General Assembly, if in session. When the General Assembly is not in session, the application shall be reported to and reviewed by the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, as provided by KRS 48.500(3).”
How does the legislature monitor the intent of federal grants?
“As a part of the Commonwealth’s budget process, each state agency provides detailed information about every federal grant award that includes both historical information and information on the current and subsequent two years.”
What is your state’s contingency plan for state financing in the case of losses or decline in federal funds?
“That is handled on a case-by-case basis within the Commonwealth’s biennial budget process.”
What is your state’s quality control process for tracking the effectiveness of federal funds?
“Most federal programs have performance reporting requirements.”
Does your state attempt to estimate the cost of federal fund requirements? If so, how?
“Yes, as a part of the biennial budget process or in preparation of an application for competitive funds.”
How does your state prioritize federal funds to best meet the needs of constituents?
“I’m unclear about the question. Most federal funds received by the state are either ongoing federal programs that are operated through the state.”
If your state does not appropriate key federal funds like food stamps and unemployment benefits, are your state’s federal funds off budget? How do you track this information?
“They are appropriated.”
Who has decision rights over American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State Fiscal Recovery Fund allocations in your state?
“The Kentucky General Assembly.”
Who has decision rights over Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund allocations in your state?
“The Kentucky Department of Education for the state set-aside funds. Each school district, as required by the three federal acts that authorized and appropriated the funds, for funds that are allocated to them by formula.”
Other state survey responses
Click on a state below to view its responses to the 2021 survey on the federal grant review process:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
See also
- State survey of the federal grant review process, 2021
- State responses to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
- State responses by question to the federal grant review process survey, 2021
- Federalism
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