Kentucky lawmakers say the Beshear administration is not carrying out legislation they passed to better protect children and vulnerable adults.

As our June Lefler reports, a cabinet leader says he doesn't have the money or authority to make good on the.

Legislature's wishes this year.

Every state lawmaker voted for House Bill 271 and Senate Bill 151.

The first creates a new reporting system for child abuse and neglect.

The second would help get would be foster kids into homes with their relatives.

But neither is going into full force.

We stand up here ready to work with you every day on behalf of Kentucky kids.

But I worry the headline tomorrow is going to be Governor Andy Beshear doesn't care about Kentucky's most vulnerable.

Despite the legislature passing these laws alongside a biennial budget, there were no appropriations made to get the job done, says the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Eric Friedlander.

What parts can't we implement?

What part are you saying requires more money?

This is important.

We're talking about saving children's lives.

Friedlander says the cabinet would need millions of dollars in part to hire more social workers.

We don't have a policy disagreement on this bill.

We have a funding disagreement.

It's going to cost $43 million to investigate 11,000 cases.

That's a high price tag.

And we've not received a breakdown.

We've not received anything.

How do you expect us and the public to believe.

That you have a fiscal note that we provided to you?

Where is it?

It's at your budget office.

Friedlander Cabinet is also under scrutiny for not providing access to child and adult abuse records to the Ombudsman's office.

Just to kind of give you the importance of that.

There is a caregiver caregiver misconduct registry which is updated so that way if you have people in nursing homes, etc., this registry indicates if someone has been determined to be a caregiving abuser.

So it's supposed to be updated regularly.

So you know that your you know, your grandparents, your elderly relatives are not being taken care of by someone who is an abuser.

It's supposed to be updated regularly.

It has not been updated because we have not had access to it.

With state auditor Alison Ball says her staff have legal purview to these records.

According to recent legislation, the cabinet overseeing adult and child abuse cases disagrees.

Earlier this month, Governor Andy Beshear said the auditor's office will get these records.

This isn't some dramatic disagreement that has any type of political tones at all.

And we want oversight that needs to happen for these really important decisions.

And the children that we're supposed to protect, we're just going to have to take some steps to get there.

Two solutions were presented either an interagency agreement or clean up legislation come next year.

But some state lawmakers say Kentucky's most vulnerable shouldn't have to wait for Kentucky Edition.

I'm June Lefler.