10/30/2019
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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-10-30
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
Hill (2019-2020) 2019-202 1 BASE BUDGETS CERTAIN AGENCIES. (NEW) Filed Feb 1 9 2019, AN ACT TO ENACT A BASE
BUDGET FOR CERTAIN STATE AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE 2019-2021 FISCAL BIENNIUM.
Senate committee substitute deletes the content of the 2nd edition and now provides the following.
Parti.
Sets forth the schedule of appropriations from the General Fund for the budgets of specified State agencies, departments, and
institutions, and other enumerated purposes, for each year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium, with net appropriations totaling
$23,900,304,471 for the 2019-20 fiscal year and $23,981,490,408 for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
Reduces the total requirements for the Department of Justice, Legal Services by $3,055,973 in recurring funds for each fiscal
year of the biennium.
Repeals Section 5(1 1) of SL 2019-229, which allocates specified funds to support 65 full-time equivalent positions in the Court
Sendees Section of the Division of Juvenile Justice. Further amends Section 5 of SL 2019-229 to reduce the appropriations set
out for the Department of Public Safety (DPS) for the implementation of the Raise the Age legislation from $30,915,431 to
$27,023,037 for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and from $43,538,704 to $39,646,310 for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
Subject to SB 61 becoming law. amends Section 1 .2 of that act to specify that the appropriations made by that act for the
budget of the Community College System for the fiscal biennium are in addition to the appropriations set out in any other
legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to the Community College System. Reduces
the Community College System requirements, receipts, and net appropriations set out for the fiscal biennium in SB 61 to
include a net appropriation of $28,216,988 rather than $1,196,633,387 for 2019-20 and $25,436,606 rather than
$1,193,853,005 for 2020-21.
Repeals Section 1 . 1(f0 of SL 2019-192, which appropriated nonrecurring funds to the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS). Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, for the 2019-20
fiscal year to be used to support the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Subject to HB 398 becoming law, amends Section 1.2 of that act to reduce the requirements, receipts, and net appropriations
set out for the fiscal biennium in HB 398 for the Department of Information Technology (D1T) to include a net appropriation of
$13,759,233 rather than $67,422,458 for 2019-20 and $15,283,879 rather than $68,947,104 for 2020-21 .
Subject to SB 683 becoming law, amends Section 5.2 of that act to specify that the appropriations made in that act for the
budget of the State Board of Elections (SBE) for the fiscal biennium are in addition to the appropriations set forth in SL 2019-
209 for the SBE. Reduces the SBE requirements, receipts, and net appropriations set out for the fiscal biennium in SB 683 to
include a net appropriation of $1 ,1 56.004 rather than $7,989,301 for 2019-20 and $44,923 rather than $6,878,220 for 2020-21.
Part 11.
Sets forth the General Fund availability used in developing the base budget for each year of the 2019-2 1 fiscal biennium.
Details procedures for the transfer of funds to the Savings Reserve, and the treatment of receivable as nontax revenue.
Directs DHHS to deposit from its revenues $165.3 million for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and $130 million for the 2020-2 1 fiscal
year, with the Department of State Treasurer to be accounted for as nontax revenue to represent the return of resources from
State-owned and State-operated hospitals used to provide indigent and nonindigent care services. Provides that the return from
State-owned and State-operated hospitals to DHHS will be made from nonfederal resources in an amount equal to the amount
of the payments from the Division of Health Benefits for uncompensated care. Requires the treatment of any revenue derived
from federal programs to be in accordance with specified federal regulations.
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