Passed in 2022, this is the appropriations bill for funding Kentucky state agencies. The bill provides, under the appropriations for University of Kentucky, "$500,000 in each fiscal year for the Human Development Institute (HDI) for the Supported Higher Education Project”. This funds the Kentucky Supported Higher Education Partnership, which works to increase higher education options, access and success for Kentucky students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Similar funding was passed in 2021 (HB 192: State Agency Appropriations). In spring 2022, HDI opened a grant application intended to fund up to seven applications with a one-time award of $20,000. HDI plans to fund up to four applications from colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and up to three applications from other Kentucky institutions of higher education. If fewer than the established number of applications in one of these categories are chosen for funding, HDI may fund additional applications in the other category.