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| SPONSOR: | HAFC | DATE TYPED: | 03/13/01 | HB | 2/HAFCS/aSFC/aCC | ||
| SHORT TITLE: | General Appropriation Act of 2001 | SB | |||||
| ANALYST: | Burch | ||||||
| Recurring
or Non-Rec |
Fund
Affected | ||||
| FY01 | FY02 | FY01 | FY02 | ||
| $ 52,098.0 | $ 3,860,289.0 | Recurring | GF | ||
| $ 479.0 | $ 1,602,259.3 | Recurring | OSF | ||
| $ 732,633.0 | Recurring | ISF/IAT | |||
| $ 4,716.7 | $ 3,003,502.7 | Recurring | FF | ||
| $ 98,518.5 | Nonrecurring | GF | |||
| $ 46,017.0 | Nonrecurring | OSF | |||
| $ 500.0 | Nonrecurring | ISF/IAT | |||
| $ 29,419.5 | Nonrecurring | FF | |||
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
NOTE: GF=General Fund; OSF=Other State Funds; ISF/IAT=Internal Services Funds/Interagency Transfers; and FF=Federal Funds
Conflicts with/Duplicates/Companion to House Bills 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and Senate Bill 98; HAFCS/H972 is a companion bill.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC files.
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Conference Committee Amendment to House Appropriations and Finance Committee Substitute for House Bills 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 and House Education Committee Substitute for House Bill 3, as Amended by the Senate Finance Committee
The amendment to the substitute bill appropriates general fund, other state funds, internal service funds/interagency transfers and federal funds for the operation of state agencies, higher education and public school support. The bill includes funding for 21,045.85 permanent, 2,345.70 term and 297.60 temporary employees for a total of 23,689.15 employees. See Attachment for general fund appropriations by agency. See the fiscal implications section of this report for the breakout of appropriations between recurring and nonrecurring and funding sources.
1. Section 4, Fiscal Year 2002 Appropriations (pages 1 through 44). This section provides funding for state agencies, higher education and public school support that have not yet transitioned into performance-based budgeting.
2. Section 5, Fiscal Year 2002 Performance-Based Budgeting Appropriations (pages 44 through 114). Section 5 provides performance-based funding to agencies included in the first- and second-year implementation of the Accountability in Government Act enacted by the Legislature in 1999. The section provides funding for the following 22 agencies and six higher education special projects selected to transition to performance-based budgeting for FY02:
Please see Attachment for a detail of the general fund appropriations by agency.
3. Section 6, Special Appropriations (pages 114 through 123); Section 7, Supplemental and Deficiency Appropriations (pages 123 through 127); and Section 8, Data Processing Appropriations (pages 127 through 132).
Section 6 appropriates money for expenditure in FY01 and FY02 for various special purposes and to fund the computer systems enhancement fund.
Section 7 appropriates money for expenditure in FY01 to make up shortfalls in FY00 and projected shortfalls in FY02.
Section 8 appropriates money from the computer systems enhancement and other funds for expenditure in FY01 and FY02 for major information technology projects. Please see Attachment for specifics.
4. Section 9, Compensation Appropriations (pages 132 through 135). Section 9 appropriates money for expenditure in FY02 for salary increases for state and higher education employees. Compensation increases for public school employees are included in the state equalization guarantee and transportation appropriations of Public School Support in Section 4 of the bill as follows. Please see Attachment for funding specifics.
5. Section 10, Additional Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Adjustment Authority (pages 135 through 139). Section 10 provides FY01 budget adjustment authority in addition to that already authorized in the General Appropriation Act of 2000.
6. Section 11, Certain Fiscal Year 2002 Budget Adjustments Authorized (pages 139 through 143). Section 11 provides agencies with budget adjustment authority for FY02.
7. New Section 12, Fund Transfers and Appropriation Contingency Fund Appropriations (page 143). The new Section 12 transfers $163 million to the appropriation contingency fund, appropriates $53 million from that fund for a medicaid supplemental for FY01 ($26.9 of this appropriation is for FY00 and prior year's deficiencies), and appropriates $5 million for medicaid expenditures for FY02.
Significant Issues
General operating appropriations for most legislative agencies are contained in House Bill 1, the Feed Bill.
PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS
Section 5 (pages 44 - 114) contains performance measures for every agency implementing performance-based budgeting in FY02. In addition, House Appropriations and Finance Committee Substitute for House Bill 972 includes additional measures.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Appropriations are summarized as follows:
| Fiscal Year 2001 | Fiscal Year 2002 | |||||||
| Section | GF | OSF | ISF/IAT | FF | GF | OSF | ISF/IAT | FF |
| Recurring: | ||||||||
| 4.FY02 Approps | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2,562,437.6 | 1,077,475.8 | 230,369.7 | 693,185.5 |
| 5.FY02 PBB | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,242,917.3 | 524,783.5 | 502,263.3 | 2,310,317.2 |
| 6.Special | 19,843.0 | 479.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 7.Supp/Def | 32,255.0 | 3,500.0 | 0.0 | 4,679.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 9.Compensation | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 54,934.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Total Recurring | 52,098.0 | 479.0 | 0.0 | 4,716.7 | 3,860,289.0 | 1,602,259.3 | 732,633.0 | 3,003,502.7 |
| Non-recurring: | ||||||||
| 6.Special | 90,804.0 | 1,563.7 | 0.0 | 9,261.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 7.Supp/Def | 7,714.5 | 8,660.1 | 500.0 | 1,720.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 8.Data Process | 0.0 | 35,793.2 | 0.0 | 18,437.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Total Nonrecurring | 98,518.5 | 46,017.0 | 500.0 | 29,419.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Finally the amended substitute bill appropriates money from the tobacco settlement program fund as follows:
| Agency | Program | Amount |
| Human Services Department | Early childhood development home visits | 475.0 |
| Human Services Department | Medicaid smoking cessation | 450.0 |
| Human Services Department | SCHIP for working poor parents | 5,322.6 |
| Human Services Department | Medicaid base | 2,300.0 |
| Human Services Department | Breast and cervical cancer treatment | 300.0 |
| Department of Health | Tobacco prevention and cessation programs | 5,000.0 |
| Department of Health | HIV services and medicine | 470.0 |
| Department of Health | Diabetes programs | 1,000.0 |
| Department of Health | Memorial Medical Center for mobile prenatal and neonatal medical services in rural areas of Dona Ana county | 350.0 |
| NM Veterans' Service Commission | Assistance to veterans with lung disease | 600.0 |
| University of New Mexico | Various | 4,400.0 |
| State Department of Public Education | Media literacy project | 275.0 |
| 20,942.6 |
CONFLICT/DUPLICATION/RELATIONSHIP
House Bill 2: (1) relates to House Bill 1, the Feed Bill, since it includes appropriations for the operation of the Legislature; and (2) duplicates appropriations for purposes contained in House Bills 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and Senate Bill 98. House Appropriations and Finance Committee Substitute for House Bill 972 includes additional performance measures for agencies that are in performance-based budgeting for FY02
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