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Beshear vetoes resolution that would end state of emergency and apparently reduce $243 monthly food benefit by $100

Beshear immediately after signing veto (Image from Facebook)

Kentucky Health News 

Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed legislation that would end the state's Covid-19 state of emergency if the General Assembly overrides his veto. Beshear says the resolution would end the $100-a-month pandemic boost in federal food aid, but legislators say that isn't their intent and that he's off base.

“Given that we have zero statewide restrictions, and we haven’t for six months, all this does is hurt these folks by cutting off this extra food aid while doing absolutely nothing else,” Beshear said in a Facebook video in which he signed the veto and asked the legislature not to override it, which it could easily do.

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy says the average monthly benefit of $243 in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, once called food stamps, would will drop by about $100. The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services said that would affect 544,000 Kentuckians would be affected.

Senate Joint Resolution 150 says "It is not the intention of the General Assembly that this resolution should impair or delay the ability of the Commonwealth to receive any federal stimulus or pandemic-related funds or services." But the Beshear administration says a federal law requires "an emergency or disaster declaration by a state based on an outbreak of Covid-19" for the extra benefits.

The legislature has barred Beshear from declaring another Covid-19 emergency without its permission. It is unclear whether he could declare a disaster. Senate President Robert Stivers said Monday, “If the governor needs something from the legislature, he still has time to come to us and we have time to respond.”

Cabinet spokeswoman Susan Dunlap said the agency advised the chairs of the House and Senate health committee the week of Feb. 28. “COVID continues to impact many families and it is indefensible to take food benefits away from Kentuckians — especially our most vulnerable seniors and children — who already go hungry at a rate higher than the national average,” Dunlap told Austin Horn of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Kentucky Health News asked Dunlap if the administration believes that the new law prohibiting another Covid-19 emergency declaration without the legislature’s approval means that the legislature would have to expressly authorize the declaration of an emergency that would meet the federal requirement.

Dunlap said Beshear asked the legislature to extend his original emergency order "until at least the April 16, 2022 expiration of the HHS public health emergency declaration and until the later date that HHS may extend its declaration. During this legislative session, the governor requested the General Assembly extend the state of emergency until Jan. 15, 2023, and the General Assembly responded by extending it to April 14, 2022."

The House passed SJR 150 overwhelmingly on March 10 despite warnings from Democratic legislators about SNAP benefits. “I'm not really interested in continuing to draw federal funds if they're not deserved or needed,” said Rep. Thomas Huff, R-Shepherdsville, who managed the bill in the House.

Beshear said Wednesday, “It comes down to this simple question: do you want our struggling seniors and kids to be able to afford enough food as we navigate out of this pandemic.” He called SJR 150 “a callous act.” Earlier, he called it “politics at its worst.”

The resolution was filed by newly elected Sen. Donald Douglas, R-Nicholasville, who is opposed in the May 17 primary election by Andrew Cooperrider, a leader of protests against pandemic restrictions. He has said the resolution is intended to help Douglas, who was elected in a special election for which party officials chose the nominees and which was held before the legislature redrew its districts.

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