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<br><br> <br>Page 1 of 1 <br>44.065 Reciprocal agreements to offset claim of any person against the <br>Commonwealth to debt of that person owed to any federal, state, or local <br>government. <br>(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, and <br>pursuant to the provisions of 31 U.S.C. sec. 3716(b) and (h)(1), the Finance and <br>Administration Cabinet, at the request of any executive, judicial, or legislative <br>agency of the Commonwealth, may enter into a reciprocal agreement with the <br>United States government to offset the claim of any person against the <br>Commonwealth to any debt of that person owed to the United States government <br>which has been certified by the United States government as final, due, and owing, <br>with all appeals and legal actions having been waived or exhausted, and to offset <br>any nontax claim of any person against the United States government to any <br>liquidated debt of that person owed to the Commonwealth. <br>(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, the Finance <br>and Administration Cabinet, at the request of any executive, judicial, or legislative <br>agency of the Commonwealth, may enter into a reciprocal agreement with any state, <br>as defined in KRS 446.010(31), to offset the claim of any person against the <br>Commonwealth to any debt of that person owed to any state which has certified the <br>debt as final, due, and owing, with all appeals and legal actions having been waived <br>or exhausted, and to offset any claim of any person against any state to any <br>liquidated debt of that person owed to the Commonwealth. <br>(3) In the case of multiple creditors who have certified liquidated debt against the same <br>person on a claim against the Commonwealth, pursuant to this section and KRS <br>44.030, the debts of the Commonwealth, counties, cities, urban-county <br>governments, consolidated local governments, and charter county governments shall <br>be credited first in the priority established in KRS 44.030, and if there is any <br>balance due the claimant after settling the whole demands of the Commonwealth, <br>counties, cities, urban-county governments, consolidated local governments, and <br>charter county governments, the balance shall be credited to the liquidated debts <br>certified by the United States government and any other state, as defined in KRS <br>446.010(31), in the order that the claims were filed with the Treasury. If there is a <br>balance due the claimant after satisfaction of all liquidated debts as itemized in this <br>section or any court-ordered payments, the balance shall be paid to the claimant. <br>Effective: April 25, 2006 <br>History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 252, Pt. XVI, sec. 2, effective April 25, 2006. <br>Legislative Research Commission Note (4/25/2006). This statute, as created by 2006 <br>Ky. Acts ch. 252, Pt. XVI. sec. 2, contained internal references in subsections (2) and <br>(3) to &quot;KRS 446.010(30).&quot; Under KRS 7.136(1)(e), these references have been <br>changed in codification to &quot;KRS 446.010(31)&quot; by the Reviser of Statutes to reflect <br>the insertion of a new subsection (24) in KRS 446.020 and the resulting renumbering <br>of succeeding subsections in 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 149, sec. 237. <br><br>