By Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – The Kentucky House has voted unanimously to approve $2.5 million for design and preliminary work for a veterans nursing home in Bowling Green.

Lawmakers said the funding would be in addition to the $10.5 million in state bond funding allocated by the 2017 General Assembly.

The proposed 90-bed facility would be the first veterans’ nursing home in south-central Kentucky and the fifth statewide. The bill now goes to the Senate.