FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) – State lawmakers are hoping to use every tool possible to help people in eastern Kentucky recover. Gov. Andy Beshear hinted it is all but certain that he will call lawmakers back to Frankfort for a special session.

Beshear is hoping lawmakers can craft a relief bill using the one that helped western Kentucky after last year’s tornados as a framework.

“It will happen, everybody is committed to it. We are having in-depth conversations about what the legislation itself looks like,” Beshear said during a briefing on flood recovery Monday.

Without a special session lawmakers would have to wait until January before the legislature could do anything to help eastern Kentucky. Beshear said Monday both houses could gavel in within a month as final details are still being ironed out.

“It all depends on coming to an agreement and how quickly we can do it though everybody – everybody – is just trying to be constructive and get it in the best place possible,” Beshear said.

For now, the governor is announcing more ways to apply for FEMA aid after several reports of claims being denied.

“I think FEMA heard us and that’s everybody, I think they see the stories of people suffering, I think they hear the frustration of lawmakers,” Beshear said.

Kentucky has become the first in the nation for FEMA to roll out a texting program to reach out to flood victims and now there is more authority inside countywide disaster recovery centers.

“Now the people on the ground, that you can go in to look eye to eye with, have the ability to approve claims,” Beshear said.

He encouraged people who have been denied to not give up, and they may get better answers about why they were denied by applying or appealing in person.

“If it’s for lack of documentation, they can tell you what documentation you need. You can probably get it in the disaster recovery center. You can come back to the FEMA table and you can get approved. This is a big deal,” Beshear said.

There are three phases to recovery: emergency, stabilization, and rebuilding. Beshear said one of the last pieces to moving into the second phase will be interim, more stable housing for the more than 150 people still in shelters.