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| SPONSOR: | Roberts | DATE TYPED: | 5/7/99 | HB | 16 | ||
| SHORT TITLE: | General Appropriations | SB | |||||
| ANALYST: | Carrillo | ||||||
| Recurring
or Non-Rec |
Fund
Affected | ||||
| FY99 | FY2000 | FY99 | FY2000 | ||
| $ 3,056,368.0 | Rec | General Fund | |||
| $ 1,270,618.8 | Rec | Other State Funds | |||
| $ 536,743.7 | Rec | Internal Service Funds/Intra-Agency Transfers | |||
| $ 1,928,253.9 | Rec | Federal Funds | |||
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates/Conflicts with/Companion to/Relates to House Bill 9, House Bill 10, Senate Bill 15, Senate Bill 16
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 16 proposes to make a general appropriation and authorize expenditures by state agencies. The Bill contains an emergency clause.
Significant Issues
HB 16 amends Laws 1998, Chapter 116, Section 3. The amendment provides general provisions. Included in the general provisions continuing the same appropriations, with the same extensions and limitations provided in Section 4 of the General appropriation Act of 1998 (Laws 1998, Chapter 116) foe every fiscal year subsequent to fiscal year 1999 unless otherwise provided by law.
The proposed legislation includes a new section addressing Fiscal Year 2000 budget adjustment authority. Briefly, the provision would allows the following:
Agencies receiving an appropriation of other state funds or internal service funds/interagency transfers for expenditure in FY2000 may request budget increases from the same source.
Agencies receiving less than $4 million in general fund appropriations for FY2000 may request category transfers and division transfers.
Agencies receiving $4 million or more in general fund for FY2000 may request division transfers; provided that the total amount of division transfers in FY2000 shall not exceed 10 percent of the agency's total FY2000 appropriation; and my request transfers from the travel, maintenance and repairs, supplies and materials, contractual services, operating costs, other costs, capital outlay, out-of-state travel or other financing uses category to any other category.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
House Bill 16 proposes to appropriate:
3,056,368.0 from the General Fund
1,270,618.8 from Other State Funds
536,743.7 from Internal Services Funds/Intra-Agency Transfers
1,928,253.9 from Federal Funds
6,791,984.4 Total All Funds
House Bill 16 does not include provisions for funding the courts. The funding for courts in FY99 was provided in Laws 1998, Chapter 117 (House Bill 5), the Court Appropriation Act. Funding, as included in Laws 1998, Chapter 117 is as follows:
68,629.2 from General Fund
8,090.6 from Other State Funds
1,451.6 from Internal Services Funds/Intra-Agency Transfers
14.6 from Federal Funds
78,186.0 Total All Funds
WJC/njw