hope we can get there soon.

>> There's more.

Lawmakers also set aside nearly $2 billion to fund dozens of one time projects, and they agreed to changes to Kentucky's tax policies.

Our Toby Gibbs continues our legislative update.

[MUSIC] >> Along with appropriating nearly $32 billion from state coffers to various government programs, agencies and services.

State lawmakers signed off on plans to fund special one time projects to the tune of more than $1.7 billion that would come from the state's Budget Reserve Trust Fund, often called the Rainy Day Fund.

From economic development initiatives and projects to infrastructure, talent, recruitment and development, health and educational endeavors, communities across the state stand to benefit.

The Vice Chair of the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee has this to say about House Bill 900.

>> When we spend less than we bring in, it frees up money for one time investments to return to the Commonwealth.

And that's what these are.

These are investments, investments in economic development, higher education, housing, infrastructure, parks, quality of life projects.

These are things that we will see a return on an investment from this $1.7 billion in House Bill 900.

>> House Bill 900 was overwhelmingly endorsed by state lawmakers yesterday and is awaiting review by the governor.

The state CEO will also have on his desk a revenue measure sent to him by lawmakers that addresses a raft of tax policy updates and changes some of the provisions, establishing a tax on fantasy sports operations and limiting participation to those 21 and older.

Decoupling Kentucky from most federal tax changes, creating a tax on prediction market platforms, providing sales tax exemptions for major golf tournaments, requiring public notice for school tax increases, and raising the population threshold required for a county to gain authority to increase a school board occupational license, which would limit it to Jefferson County.

HB 757 also bans the sale of kratom products, an herbal substance that's come under heavy scrutiny for side effects and overdose dangers.

What's equally as notable in the bill?

It would add a statue of Kentucky's senior U.S.

senator, Mitch McConnell, to the state Capitol Rotunda when renovations are complete.

>> Our Capitol Rotunda contains the lions of Kentucky Life Ephraim McDowell.

Alvin Barkley, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln.

And this item.

Takes up the fourth corner of the rotunda with a statue of Senator Addison Mitch McConnell.

While he is obviously a much more modern figure than any that I named, he no doubt has earned a place in the rotunda.

He will go down as one of the most influential Kentuckians ever to grace the halls of Frankfort, in the halls of the United States Senate in Washington, DC.

The effects of his leadership of the Senate and of our party here in the Commonwealth are absolutely unparalleled, and it's a distinct honor for this Commonwealth to be able to claim.

Senator McConnell is one of our own and to.

And to forever enshrine him in the rotunda of the Capitol.

>> Lawmakers also approved a traditional biennial measure of the honorary naming of roads and bridges in Kentucky.

But one name stirred debate on its inclusion the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Here's some of the floor commentary about Senate Joint Resolution 139.

>> And in my opinion, Mr.

President, he was a polarizing podcaster who on public record included rhetoric that many communities experience as hostile and harmful.

And I believe that naming a road after him asked the public, including the very people targeted by that rhetoric, to celebrate him with their hard earned tax dollars with public infrastructure.

>> It was 18 years old when he created Turning Point USA, and he began a movement on our college campuses to stop the left leaning indoctrination from one perspective and enter into their space and debate and discuss and get people to think and and reach different discoveries about their opinions.

It was a really beautiful thing to watch him have those discussions, and he never came in anger.

He came in love.

He came with his faith out in front of him and stood for family values.

He stood for life.

He stood for the principles that that Kentuckians stand for.

>> The resolution earned minimal opposition by roll call vote in both the House and Senate last night, and is now waiting for the governor to