CSHB 325(FIN) AM(BRF SUP MAJ FLD): "An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government, for certain programs, and to capitalize funds; and providing for an effective date."
00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 325(FIN) am(brf sup maj fld) 01 "An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses 02 of state government, for certain programs, and to capitalize funds; and 03 providing for an effective date." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 * Section 1. ALASKA HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION. (a) The sum of 06 $50,000,000 from the available unrestricted cash in the general account of the Alaska housing 07 finance revolving fund (AS 18.56.082) is anticipated to be transferred to the general fund 08 during fiscal year 1999 by the direction of the board of directors of the Alaska Housing 09 Finance Corporation. 10 (b) All unrestricted mortgage loan interest payments, mortgage loan commitment fees, 11 and all other unrestricted receipts received by or accrued to the Alaska Housing Finance 12 Corporation during fiscal year 1999 and all income earned on assets of the corporation during 13 that period are appropriated to the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation to hold as corporate 14 receipts for the purposes described in AS 18.56. The corporation shall allocate its corporate
01 receipts among the Alaska housing finance revolving fund (AS 18.56.082), housing assistance 02 loan fund (AS 18.56.420), and senior housing revolving fund (AS 18.56.710) in accordance 03 with procedures adopted by the board of directors. 04 (c) The following amounts are appropriated to the Alaska Housing Finance 05 Corporation (AHFC) from the sources indicated and for the following purposes: 06 PURPOSE AMOUNT SOURCE 07 Housing loan programs $472,000,000 AHFC corporate receipts 08 not subsidized by AHFC 09 Housing loan programs 50,000,000 AHFC corporate receipts 10 and projects subsidized derived from arbitrage 11 by AHFC earnings 12 * Sec. 2. ALASKA PERMANENT FUND CORPORATION. (a) The amount authorized 13 for transfer by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation under AS 37.13.145(b) is appropriated 14 from the earnings reserve account (AS 37.13.145) to the dividend fund (AS 43.23.045(a)) for 15 the payment of permanent fund dividends and administrative and associated costs. 16 (b) After money is transferred to the dividend fund under (a) of this section, the 17 amount calculated under AS 37.13.145 to offset the effect of inflation on the principal of the 18 Alaska permanent fund is appropriated from the earnings reserve account (AS 37.13.145) to 19 the principal of the Alaska permanent fund. 20 (c) The amount required to be deposited under AS 37.13.010(a)(1) and (2) during 21 fiscal year 1999 is appropriated to the principal of the Alaska permanent fund in satisfaction 22 of that requirement. 23 (d) The interest earned during fiscal year 1999 on revenue from the sources set out 24 in AS 37.13.010 while the revenue is held in trust, escrow, or otherwise before receipt by the 25 state is appropriated to the principal of the Alaska permanent fund. 26 * Sec. 3. ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. The unexpended and 27 unobligated balance on June 30, 1998, of the Alaska Public Utilities Commission receipts 28 account for regulatory cost charges under AS 42.05.254 and AS 42.06.286 for fiscal year 1998 29 is appropriated to the Alaska Public Utilities Commission for fiscal year 1999 expenditures. 30 * Sec. 4. ALASKA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION. The unexpended 31 and unobligated balance in the Alaska science and technology endowment earnings reserve
01 on June 30, 1998, is appropriated to the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation to award 02 as grants under AS 37.17.030(d) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 03 * Sec. 5. ALASKA SEAFOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE. An amount equal to the 04 unexpended and unobligated balance on June 30, 1998, of the fiscal year 1998 general fund 05 receipts from the salmon marketing tax (AS 43.76.110) and from the seafood marketing 06 assessment (AS 16.51.120) is appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska Seafood 07 Marketing Institute for marketing Alaska seafood products during fiscal year 1999. 08 * Sec. 6. DISASTER RELIEF AND FIRE SUPPRESSION. Federal receipts received for 09 disaster relief are appropriated to the disaster relief fund (AS 26.23.300). 10 * Sec. 7. FEDERAL AND OTHER PROGRAM RECEIPTS. (a) Federal receipts, 11 designated program receipts as defined under AS 37.05.146(b)(3), receipts of commercial 12 fisheries test fishing operations under AS 37.05.146(b)(4)(U), and receipts of or from the trust 13 established by AS 37.14.400 - 37.14.450 (Exxon Valdez oil spill trust) that exceed the 14 amounts appropriated by this Act are appropriated conditioned on compliance with the 15 program review provisions of AS 37.07.080(h). 16 (b) If federal or other program receipts as defined in AS 37.05.146 exceed the 17 estimates appropriated by this Act, the appropriations from state funds for the affected 18 program may be reduced by the excess if the reductions are consistent with applicable federal 19 statutes. 20 (c) If federal or other program receipts as defined in AS 37.05.146 fall short of the 21 estimates appropriated by this Act, the affected appropriation is reduced by the amount of the 22 shortfall in receipts. 23 * Sec. 8. FISH AND GAME ENFORCEMENT. (a) To increase enforcement of the fish 24 and game laws of the state, the amount deposited in the general fund during the fiscal year 25 ending June 30, 1998, from criminal fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed for violation of 26 AS 16 and its implementing regulations and from the sale of forfeited property or alternative 27 damages collected under AS 16.05.195 is appropriated to the fish and game fund 28 (AS 16.05.100). 29 (b) Appropriations totaling the estimated amount of the deposits described in (a) of 30 this section are made in sec. 30 of this Act to the Department of Public Safety and the 31 Department of Law for increased enforcement, investigation, and prosecution of state fish and
01 game laws. If the receipts appropriated to the fish and game fund (AS 16.05.100) from the 02 sources described in (a) of this section during fiscal year 1999 fall short of the estimates 03 appropriated by this Act, each department's appropriation set out in sec. 30 of this Act is 04 reduced proportionately. 05 * Sec. 9. FOUR DAM POOL TRANSFER FUND. The amount available in the four dam 06 pool transfer fund (AS 42.45.050) during fiscal year 1999 is appropriated to the following 07 funds in the following percentages for the purposes set out in AS 42.45.050: 08 Power cost equalization and rural electric 40 percent 09 capitalization fund (AS 42.45.100) 10 Southeast energy fund (AS 42.45.040) 40 percent 11 Power project fund (AS 42.45.010) 20 percent 12 * Sec. 10. INFORMATION SERVICES FUND. The sum of $55,000 is appropriated to 13 the information services fund (AS 44.21.045) for the Department of Administration, division 14 of information services programs, from designated program receipts. 15 * Sec. 11. INSURANCE AND BOND CLAIMS. The amount necessary to fund the uses 16 of the state insurance catastrophe reserve account described in AS 37.05.289(a) is appropriated 17 from that account to the Department of Administration for those uses. 18 * Sec. 12. INSURANCE FEES. The unexpended and unobligated balance on June 30, 19 1998, of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, division of insurance, 20 general fund program receipts from insurance fees under AS 21.06.250 is appropriated to the 21 Department of Commerce and Economic Development, division of insurance, for operating 22 costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 23 * Sec. 13. MARINE HIGHWAY SYSTEM FUND. The sum of $27,358,100 is 24 appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska marine highway system fund (AS 19.65.060). 25 * Sec. 14. MOTOR FUEL TAX. The following estimated amounts from the unreserved 26 special accounts in the general fund are included within the general fund amounts appropriated 27 by this Act: 28 Special highway fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(g)) $25,100,000 29 Special aviation fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(e)) 5,400,000 30 * Sec. 15. OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING. The unexpended and unobligated balance on 31 June 30, 1998, of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, division of
01 occupational licensing, general fund program receipts from occupational licensing fees under 02 AS 08.01.065 is appropriated to the division of occupational licensing for operating costs for 03 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 04 * Sec. 16. OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RELEASE PREVENTION 05 ACCOUNT. The following amounts are appropriated to the oil and hazardous substance 06 release prevention account (AS 46.08.010(a)(1)) in the oil and hazardous substance release 07 prevention and response fund (AS 46.08.010) from the sources indicated: 08 (1) the balance of the oil and hazardous substance release prevention mitigation 09 account (AS 46.08.020(b)) in the general fund on July 1, 1998, not otherwise appropriated by 10 this Act; 11 (2) the amount collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, estimated 12 to be $12,300,000, from the surcharge levied under AS 43.55.300. 13 * Sec. 17. OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RELEASE RESPONSE ACCOUNT. 14 The following amounts are appropriated to the oil and hazardous substance release response 15 account (AS 46.08.010(a)(2)) in the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and 16 response fund (AS 46.08.010) from the following sources: 17 (1) the balance of the oil and hazardous substance release response mitigation 18 account (AS 46.08.025(b)) in the general fund on July 1, 1998, not otherwise appropriated by 19 this Act; 20 (2) the amount collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, from the 21 surcharge levied under AS 43.55.201. 22 * Sec. 18. RETAINED FEES. The amount retained to compensate the collector or trustee 23 of fees, licenses, taxes, or other money belonging to the state during the fiscal year ending 24 June 30, 1999, is appropriated for that purpose to the agency authorized by law to generate 25 the revenue. 26 * Sec. 19. SAFETY ADVISORY COUNCIL. The amount appropriated for the 1998 27 annual governor's safety conference (sec. 19, ch. 98, SLA 1997), plus the fiscal year 1998 28 program receipts of the Alaska Safety Advisory Council (AS 18.60.830), less the amount 29 expended or obligated for the 1998 annual governor's safety conference, is appropriated from 30 general fund program receipts to the Alaska Safety Advisory Council for costs of the 1999 31 annual governor's safety conference.
01 * Sec. 20. SALARY AND BENEFIT ADJUSTMENTS. (a) The sum of $4,557,360 is 02 appropriated to the Office of the Governor, office of management and budget, for the fiscal 03 year ending June 30, 1999, from the funding sources and in the amounts listed in (g) of this 04 section to implement the monetary terms of the collective bargaining agreements listed in (b) 05 of this section and for salary and benefit adjustments for executive branch, Alaska Court 06 System, and legislative branch employees who are not members of a collective bargaining 07 unit. 08 (b) Funding for the following collective bargaining agreements is included in the 09 appropriation made in (a) of this section: 10 Alaska Public Employees Association for the Supervisory Unit; 11 Alaska State Employees Association for the General Government Unit; 12 Alyeska Correspondence School Education Association, representing teachers at the Alyeska Central School; 13 Alaska Vocational Technical Center Teachers Association, representing teachers at the Alaska Vocational Technical 14 Center; 15 Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, representing the unlicensed marine unit; 16 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, representing nonjudicial, nonsupervisory, classified employees 17 of the Alaska Court System; 18 International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, Pacific Maritime Region for 19 the Masters, Mates, and Pilots Unit; 20 Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, representing licensed engineers employed by 21 the Alaska marine highway system; 22 Public Employees Local 71 for the Labor, Trades, and Crafts Unit; 23 Public Safety Employees Association, representing state troopers and other 24 commissioned law enforcement personnel; 25 Teachers' Education Association of Mt. Edgecumbe, representing teachers of the 26 Mt. Edgecumbe High School. 27 (c) Funding for salary and benefits adjustments for University of Alaska employees 28 who are not members of a collective bargaining unit and for the following collective 29 bargaining agreements is included in the appropriations made to the University of Alaska in 30 sec. 30 of this Act: 31 Alaska Classified Employees Association, representing certain employees of the
01 University of Alaska; 02 Alaska Community College Federation of Teachers, representing certain employees of 03 the University of Alaska; 04 United Academics, representing certain employees of the University of Alaska. 05 (d) The sum of $76,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Office of the 06 Governor, office of management and budget, to implement the monetary terms of the 07 collective bargaining agreement between the State of Alaska and the Confidential Employees 08 Association for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 09 (e) Except as described in (f) of this section, the appropriation made in (a) of this 10 section is the net funding increase for salary and benefit adjustments after deducting cost 11 savings resulting from decreases in employer contributions to the Public Employees 12 Retirement System (PERS). For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, the PERS employer 13 contribution rate declines 1.57 percent for police and fire employees and .81 percent for all 14 other executive branch employees except University of Alaska employees. 15 (f) The amount of operating budget appropriations made in sec. 30 of this Act to the 16 University of Alaska, the Alaska Court System, and the legislature includes any increase or 17 decrease caused by changes to the PERS contribution rate. 18 (g) The appropriation made in (a) of this section is allocated to the following agencies 19 from the following funding sources in the amounts listed: 20 AGENCY ALLOCATION 21 Administration $293,300 22 Commerce and Economic Development 87,300 23 Community and Regional Affairs 47,700 24 Corrections 348,600 25 Education 115,700 26 Environmental Conservation 133,000 27 Fish and Game 358,300 28 Office of the Governor 41,600 29 Health and Social Services 644,600 30 Labor 251,500 31 Law 98,300
01 Military and Veterans' Affairs 64,300 02 Natural Resources 181,600 03 Public Safety 177,100 04 Revenue 311,000 05 Transportation and Public Facilities 777,500 06 Transportation and Public Facilities/ 07 Alaska marine highway system fund 147,300 08 Alaska Court System 219,260 09 Legislature 259,400 10 FUNDING SOURCE AMOUNT 11 Federal receipts 743,200 12 General fund match 172,600 13 General fund receipts 981,060 14 General fund program receipts 210,400 15 Inter-agency receipts 224,800 16 Donated commodities handling fee account 500 17 Federal incentive payments 11,000 18 Benefit system receipts 7,700 19 Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement 21,800 20 Agricultural loan fund 4,600 21 FICA administration fund account 300 22 Fish and game fund 48,800 23 Science and technology endowment 2,700 24 Highway working capital fund 30,400 25 International airports revenue fund 110,200 26 Public employees retirement fund 9,900 27 Second injury fund reserve account 600 28 Disabled fisherman's reserve account 500 29 Surplus property revolving fund 1,300 30 Teachers' retirement system fund 8,500 31 Veterans' revolving loan fund 700
01 Commercial fishing loan fund 7,600 02 General fund/mental health 29,600 03 Real estate surety fund 300 04 Judicial retirement system 100 05 Public Law 81-874 300 06 National guard retirement system 100 07 Training and building fund 4,400 08 Permanent fund dividend fund 17,000 09 Rural development initiative fund 200 10 Oil/hazardous prevention/response 32,400 11 Investment loss trust fund 1,112,000 12 Interagency receipts/oil and hazardous waste 5,100 13 Capital improvement project receipts 294,000 14 Power project loan fund 2,500 15 Public school fund 100 16 Child care facility revolving loan fund 100 17 Fisheries enhancement revolving loan fund 700 18 Alternative energy revolving loan fund 500 19 Bulk fuel revolving loan fund 200 20 Alaska clean water loan fund 1,100 21 Marine highway system fund 245,500 22 Storage tank assistance fund 2,600 23 Mental health trust receipts 1,400 24 Clean air protection fund 8,200 25 Information services fund 36,800 26 Mental health trust authority authorized receipts 5,400 27 Children's trust fund earnings 100 28 Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority receipts 6,500 29 Alaska Housing Finance Corporation receipts 82,300 30 Alaska Municipal Bond Bank receipts 300 31 Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation receipts 7,100
01 Postsecondary education commission receipts 24,200 02 Alaska Energy Authority receipts 900 03 Designated program receipts 14,400 04 Test fisheries receipts 10,900 05 Alaska Public Utilities Commission receipts 10,900 06 * Sec. 21. SALMON ENHANCEMENT TAX. The salmon enhancement tax collected 07 under AS 43.76.010 - 43.76.030 in calendar year 1997 and deposited in the general fund under 08 AS 43.76.025(c) is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Commerce and 09 Economic Development for payment in fiscal year 1999 to qualified regional associations 10 operating within a region designated under AS 16.10.375. 11 * Sec. 22. SHARED TAXES AND FEES. The amount necessary to refund to local 12 governments their share of taxes and fees collected in the listed fiscal years under the 13 following programs is appropriated to the Department of Revenue from the general fund for 14 payment in fiscal year 1999: 15 REVENUE SOURCE FISCAL YEAR COLLECTED 16 fisheries taxes (AS 43.75) 1998 17 fishery resource landing tax (AS 43.77) 1998 18 amusement and gaming taxes (AS 43.35) 1999 19 aviation fuel tax (AS 43.40.010) 1999 20 electric and telephone cooperative tax (AS 10.25.570) 1999 21 liquor license fee (AS 04.11) 1999 22 * Sec. 23. STATE DEBT AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS. (a) The amount required to pay 23 interest on revenue anticipation notes issued by the commissioner of revenue under AS 43.08 24 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Revenue for payment of the 25 interest on those notes. 26 (b) The amount required to be paid by the state for principal and interest on all issued 27 and outstanding state-guaranteed bonds is appropriated from the general fund to the state bond 28 committee for payment of principal and interest on those bonds. 29 (c) The sum of $46,029,032 is appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska debt 30 retirement fund (AS 37.15.011). 31 (d) The sum of $16,331,216 is appropriated from the Alaska debt retirement fund
01 (AS 37.15.011) to the state bond committee for trustee fees and lease payments relating to 02 certificates of participation issued for real property. 03 (e) The sum of $8,871,807 is appropriated from the Alaska debt retirement fund 04 (AS 37.15.011) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees on 05 state general obligation bonds. 06 (f) The sum of $5,005,283 is appropriated from the International Airports Revenue 07 Fund (AS 37.15.430) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees 08 on outstanding international airports revenue bonds. 09 (g) The sum of $466,500 is appropriated from the Alaska clean water fund 10 (AS 46.03.032) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees on 11 outstanding clean water fund bonds. 12 (h) The sum of $60,804,147 is appropriated to the Department of Education for state 13 aid for costs of school construction under AS 14.11.100 from the following sources: 14 Alaska debt retirement fund (AS 37.15.011) $26,804,147 15 School fund (AS 43.50.140) 34,000,000 16 * Sec. 24. STATE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The lapsing balance 17 of the employment assistance and training program account (AS 23.15.625) on June 30, 1998, 18 is appropriated to the unemployment compensation fund (AS 23.20.130). 19 * Sec. 25. STATUTORY BUDGET RESERVE FUND. If the unrestricted state revenue 20 available for appropriation in fiscal year 1999 is insufficient to cover the general fund 21 appropriations made for fiscal year 1999, the amount necessary to balance revenue and general 22 fund appropriations is appropriated to the general fund from the budget reserve fund 23 (AS 37.05.540). 24 * Sec. 26. STORAGE TANK ASSISTANCE FUND. The sum of $4,364,800 is 25 appropriated from the oil and hazardous substance release prevention account 26 (AS 46.08.010(a)(1)) to the storage tank assistance fund (AS 46.03.410) for the fiscal year 27 ending June 30, 1999. 28 * Sec. 27. STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM. The amount from student loan borrowers of 29 the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education that is assessed for loan origination fees 30 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, is appropriated to the origination fee account 31 (AS 14.43.120(u)) within the student loan fund of the Alaska Student Loan Corporation for
01 the purposes specified in AS 14.43.120(u). 02 * Sec. 28. TEACHER CERTIFICATION. The unexpended and unobligated balance on 03 June 30, 1998, of the Department of Education, teacher certification general fund program 04 receipts from certification fees under AS 14.20.020(c) is appropriated to the Department of 05 Education, teacher certification, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 06 * Sec. 29. NONLAPSE OF APPROPRIATIONS. The appropriations made by secs. 1, 6, 07 8(a), 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 24, and 27 of this Act are for the capitalization of funds and do not 08 lapse. 09 (SECTION 30 OF THIS ACT BEGINS ON PAGE 16)