AN ACT relating to workforce development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; establish the Kentucky FLOW Program and specify eligible participants, activities, and uses of funds; establish the Kentucky FLOW Program fund; appropriate $1,347,500 in each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Kentucky FLOW Program fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY, effective, July 1, 2026.

Introduced: February 26, 2026

Last action: March 5, 2026

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This bill creates the Kentucky FLOW Program, a new workforce development initiative housed within state labor law. It sets aside roughly $1.35 million per year in state funding to support the program, which outlines who can participate and what activities and expenses the money can cover. The bill takes effect July 1, 2026, and includes an emergency clause to ensure it can be enacted quickly. Who it may affect: workers and job seekers who may qualify as eligible participants under the new program, as well as state agencies overseeing labor and workforce services.

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