SCS CSHB 325(FIN): "An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government, for certain programs, and to capitalize funds; making appropriations under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, from the constitutional budget reserve fund; and providing for an effective date."
00SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 325(FIN) 01 "An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses 02 of state government, for certain programs, and to capitalize funds; making 03 appropriations under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, 04 from the constitutional budget reserve fund; and providing for an effective 05 date." 06 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 07 * Section 1. ALASKA HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION. (a) The sum of 08 $50,000,000 from the available unrestricted cash in the general account of the Alaska housing 09 finance revolving fund (AS 18.56.082) is anticipated to be transferred to the general fund 10 during fiscal year 1999 by the direction of the board of directors of the Alaska Housing 11 Finance Corporation. 12 (b) All unrestricted mortgage loan interest payments, mortgage loan commitment fees, 13 and all other unrestricted receipts received by or accrued to the Alaska Housing Finance 14 Corporation during fiscal year 1999 and all income earned on assets of the corporation during
01 that period are appropriated to the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation to hold as corporate 02 receipts for the purposes described in AS 18.56. The corporation shall allocate its corporate 03 receipts among the Alaska housing finance revolving fund (AS 18.56.082), housing assistance 04 loan fund (AS 18.56.420), and senior housing revolving fund (AS 18.56.710) in accordance 05 with procedures adopted by the board of directors. 06 (c) The following amounts are appropriated to the Alaska Housing Finance 07 Corporation (AHFC) from the sources indicated and for the following purposes: 08 PURPOSE AMOUNT SOURCE 09 Housing loan programs $472,000,000 AHFC corporate receipts 10 not subsidized by AHFC 11 Housing loan programs 50,000,000 AHFC corporate receipts 12 and projects subsidized derived from arbitrage 13 by AHFC earnings 14 * Sec. 2. ALASKA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPORT AUTHORITY. The 15 sum of $16,000,000 from the available unrestricted cash in the Alaska Industrial Development 16 and Export Authority revolving fund (AS 44.88.060) is anticipated to be transferred to the 17 general fund as directed by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority. The 18 transferred money shall be deposited in the general fund when received during fiscal year 19 1999. 20 * Sec. 3. ALASKA PERMANENT FUND CORPORATION. (a) The amount authorized 21 for transfer by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation under AS 37.13.145(b) is appropriated 22 from the earnings reserve account (AS 37.13.145) to the dividend fund (AS 43.23.045(a)) for 23 the payment of permanent fund dividends and administrative and associated costs. 24 (b) After money is transferred to the dividend fund under (a) of this section, the 25 amount calculated under AS 37.13.145 to offset the effect of inflation on the principal of the 26 Alaska permanent fund is appropriated from the earnings reserve account (AS 37.13.145) to 27 the principal of the Alaska permanent fund. 28 (c) The amount required to be deposited under AS 37.13.010(a)(1) and (2) during 29 fiscal year 1999 is appropriated to the principal of the Alaska permanent fund in satisfaction 30 of that requirement. 31 (d) The interest earned during fiscal year 1999 on revenue from the sources set out
01 in AS 37.13.010 while the revenue is held in trust, escrow, or otherwise before receipt by the 02 state is appropriated to the principal of the Alaska permanent fund. 03 * Sec. 4. ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. The unexpended and 04 unobligated balance on June 30, 1998, of the Alaska Public Utilities Commission receipts 05 account for regulatory cost charges under AS 42.05.254 and AS 42.06.286 for fiscal year 1998 06 is appropriated to the Alaska Public Utilities Commission for fiscal year 1999 expenditures. 07 * Sec. 5. ALASKA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION. The unexpended 08 and unobligated balance in the Alaska science and technology endowment earnings reserve 09 on June 30, 1998, is appropriated to the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation to award 10 as grants under AS 37.17.030(d) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 11 * Sec. 6. ALASKA SEAFOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE. An amount equal to the 12 unexpended and unobligated balance on June 30, 1998, of the fiscal year 1998 general fund 13 receipts from the salmon marketing tax (AS 43.76.110) and from the seafood marketing 14 assessment (AS 16.51.120) is appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska Seafood 15 Marketing Institute for marketing Alaska seafood products during fiscal year 1999. 16 * Sec. 7. CONSTITUTIONAL BUDGET RESERVE FUND. (a) Amounts equal to the 17 deposits in the budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, Constitution of the State of Alaska) for 18 fiscal year 1998 that were made from subfunds and accounts in the general fund by operation 19 of art. IX, sec. 17(d), Constitution of the State of Alaska, to repay appropriations from the 20 budget reserve fund are appropriated from the budget reserve fund to the subfunds and 21 accounts from which they were transferred. 22 (b) If the unrestricted state revenue available for appropriation in fiscal year 1999 is 23 insufficient to cover the general fund appropriations made for fiscal year 1999, the amount 24 necessary to balance revenue and general fund appropriations is appropriated to the general 25 fund from the budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, Constitution of the State of Alaska). 26 (c) The appropriations in (a) and (b) of this section are made under art. IX, sec. 17(c), 27 Constitution of the State of Alaska. 28 * Sec. 8. DISASTER RELIEF AND FIRE SUPPRESSION. Federal receipts received for 29 disaster relief are appropriated to the disaster relief fund (AS 26.23.300). 30 * Sec. 9. FEDERAL AND OTHER PROGRAM RECEIPTS. (a) If federal or other 31 program receipts as defined in AS 37.05.146 exceed the estimates appropriated by this Act,
01 the appropriations from state funds for the affected program may be reduced by the excess if 02 the reductions are consistent with applicable federal statutes. 03 (b) If federal or other program receipts as defined in AS 37.05.146 fall short of the 04 estimates appropriated by this Act, the affected appropriation is reduced by the amount of the 05 shortfall in receipts. 06 * Sec. 10. FISH AND GAME ENFORCEMENT. (a) To increase enforcement of the fish 07 and game laws of the state, the amount deposited in the general fund during the fiscal year 08 ending June 30, 1998, from criminal fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed for violation of 09 AS 16 and its implementing regulations and from the sale of forfeited property or alternative 10 damages collected under AS 16.05.195 is appropriated to the fish and game fund 11 (AS 16.05.100). 12 (b) Appropriations totaling the estimated amount of the deposits described in (a) of 13 this section are made in sec. 32 of this Act to the Department of Public Safety and the 14 Department of Law for increased enforcement, investigation, and prosecution of state fish and 15 game laws. If the receipts appropriated to the fish and game fund (AS 16.05.100) from the 16 sources described in (a) of this section during fiscal year 1999 fall short of the estimates 17 appropriated by this Act, each department's appropriation set out in sec. 32 of this Act is 18 reduced proportionately. 19 * Sec. 11. FOUR DAM POOL TRANSFER FUND. The amount available in the four dam 20 pool transfer fund (AS 42.45.050) during fiscal year 1999 is appropriated to the following 21 funds in the following percentages for the purposes set out in AS 42.45.050: 22 Power cost equalization and rural electric 40 percent 23 capitalization fund (AS 42.45.100) 24 Southeast energy fund (AS 42.45.040) 40 percent 25 Power project fund (AS 42.45.010) 20 percent 26 * Sec. 12. INFORMATION SERVICES FUND. The sum of $55,000 is appropriated to 27 the information services fund (AS 44.21.045) for the Department of Administration, division 28 of information services programs, from designated program receipts. 29 * Sec. 13. INSURANCE AND BOND CLAIMS. The amount necessary to fund the uses 30 of the state insurance catastrophe reserve account described in AS 37.05.289(a) is appropriated 31 from that account to the Department of Administration for those uses.
01 * Sec. 14. INSURANCE FEES. The unexpended and unobligated balance on June 30, 02 1998, of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, division of insurance, 03 general fund program receipts from insurance fees under AS 21.06.250 is appropriated to the 04 Department of Commerce and Economic Development, division of insurance, for operating 05 costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 06 * Sec. 15. MARINE HIGHWAY SYSTEM FUND. The sum of $27,358,100 is 07 appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska marine highway system fund (AS 19.65.060). 08 * Sec. 16. MOTOR FUEL TAX. The following estimated amounts from the unreserved 09 special accounts in the general fund are included within the general fund amounts appropriated 10 by this Act: 11 Special highway fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(g)) $25,100,000 12 Special aviation fuel tax account (AS 43.40.010(e)) 5,400,000 13 * Sec. 17. OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING. The unexpended and unobligated balance on 14 June 30, 1998, of the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, division of 15 occupational licensing, general fund program receipts from occupational licensing fees under 16 AS 08.01.065 is appropriated to the division of occupational licensing for operating costs for 17 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 18 * Sec. 18. OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RELEASE PREVENTION 19 ACCOUNT. The following amounts are appropriated to the oil and hazardous substance 20 release prevention account (AS 46.08.010(a)(1)) in the oil and hazardous substance release 21 prevention and response fund (AS 46.08.010) from the sources indicated: 22 (1) the balance of the oil and hazardous substance release prevention mitigation 23 account (AS 46.08.020(b)) in the general fund on July 1, 1998, not otherwise appropriated by 24 this Act; 25 (2) the amount collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, estimated 26 to be $12,300,000, from the surcharge levied under AS 43.55.300. 27 * Sec. 19. OIL AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE RELEASE RESPONSE ACCOUNT. 28 The following amounts are appropriated to the oil and hazardous substance release response 29 account (AS 46.08.010(a)(2)) in the oil and hazardous substance release prevention and 30 response fund (AS 46.08.010) from the following sources: 31 (1) the balance of the oil and hazardous substance release response mitigation
01 account (AS 46.08.025(b)) in the general fund on July 1, 1998, not otherwise appropriated by 02 this Act; 03 (2) the amount collected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, from the 04 surcharge levied under AS 43.55.201. 05 * Sec. 20. RETAINED FEES. The amount retained to compensate the collector or trustee 06 of fees, licenses, taxes, or other money belonging to the state during the fiscal year ending 07 June 30, 1999, is appropriated for that purpose to the agency authorized by law to generate 08 the revenue. 09 * Sec. 21. SAFETY ADVISORY COUNCIL. The amount appropriated for the 1998 10 annual governor's safety conference (sec. 19, ch. 98, SLA 1997), plus the fiscal year 1998 11 program receipts of the Alaska Safety Advisory Council (AS 18.60.830), less the amount 12 expended or obligated for the 1998 annual governor's safety conference, is appropriated from 13 general fund program receipts to the Alaska Safety Advisory Council for costs of the 1999 14 annual governor's safety conference. 15 * Sec. 22. SALARY AND BENEFIT ADJUSTMENTS. (a) The sum of $4,675,260 is 16 appropriated to the Office of the Governor, office of management and budget, for the fiscal 17 year ending June 30, 1999, from the funding sources and in the amounts listed in (f) of this 18 section to implement the monetary terms of the collective bargaining agreements listed in (b) 19 of this section and for salary and benefit adjustments for executive branch, Alaska Court 20 System, and legislative branch employees who are not members of a collective bargaining 21 unit. 22 (b) Funding for the following collective bargaining agreements is included in the 23 appropriation made in (a) of this section: 24 Alaska Public Employees Association for the Supervisory Unit; 25 Alaska State Employees Association for the General Government Unit; 26 Alaska Vocational Technical Center Teachers Association, representing teachers at the Alaska Vocational Technical 27 Center; 28 Alyeska Correspondence School Education Association, representing teachers at the Alyeska Central School; 29 Confidential Employees Association; 30 Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, representing the unlicensed marine unit; 31 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, representing nonjudicial, nonsupervisory, classified employees
01 of the Alaska Court System; 02 International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, Pacific Maritime Region for 03 the Masters, Mates, and Pilots Unit; 04 Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, representing licensed engineers employed by 05 the Alaska marine highway system; 06 Public Employees Local 71 for the Labor, Trades, and Crafts Unit; 07 Public Safety Employees Association, representing state troopers and other 08 commissioned law enforcement personnel; 09 Teachers' Education Association of Mt. Edgecumbe, representing teachers of the 10 Mt. Edgecumbe High School. 11 (c) Funding for the following collective bargaining agreements is included in the 12 appropriations made to the University of Alaska in sec. 32 of this Act: 13 Alaska Classified Employees Association, representing certain employees of the 14 University of Alaska; 15 Alaska Community College Federation of Teachers, representing certain employees of 16 the University of Alaska; 17 United Academics, representing certain employees of the University of Alaska. 18 (d) Except as described in (e) of this section, the appropriation made in (a) of this 19 section is the net funding increase for salary and benefit adjustments after deducting cost 20 savings resulting from decreases in employer contributions to the Public Employees 21 Retirement System (PERS). For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, the PERS employer 22 contribution rate declines 1.57 percent for police and fire employees and .81 percent for all 23 other executive branch employees except University of Alaska employees. 24 (e) The amount of operating budget appropriations made in sec. 32 of this Act to the 25 University of Alaska, the Alaska Court System, and the legislature includes any increase or 26 decrease caused by changes to the PERS contribution rate. 27 (f) The appropriation made in (a) of this section is allocated to the following agencies 28 from the following funding sources in the amounts listed: 29 AGENCY ALLOCATION 30 Administration $332,200 31 Commerce and Economic Development 89,100
01 Community and Regional Affairs 49,000 02 Corrections 355,400 03 Education 118,500 04 Environmental Conservation 136,500 05 Fish and Game 366,200 06 Office of the Governor 41,600 07 Health and Social Services 656,500 08 Labor 255,500 09 Law 100,100 10 Military and Veterans' Affairs 65,500 11 Natural Resources 187,600 12 Public Safety 180,900 13 Revenue 314,600 14 Transportation and Public Facilities 796,000 15 Transportation and Public Facilities/ 16 Alaska marine highway system fund 151,400 17 Alaska Court System 219,260 18 Legislature 259,400 19 FUNDING SOURCE AMOUNT 20 Federal receipts 754,200 21 General fund match 174,800 22 General fund receipts 1,055,760 23 General fund program receipts 210,400 24 Inter-agency receipts 240,600 25 Donated commodities handling fee account 500 26 Federal incentive payments 11,000 27 Benefit system receipts 8,200 28 Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement 21,800 29 Agricultural loan fund 4,600 30 FICA administration fund account 300 31 Fish and game fund 48,900
01 Science and technology endowment 2,700 02 Highway working capital fund 31,700 03 International airports revenue fund 111,900 04 Public employees retirement fund 10,100 05 Second injury fund reserve account 600 06 Disabled fisherman's reserve account 500 07 Surplus property revolving fund 1,300 08 Teachers' retirement system fund 8,700 09 Veterans' revolving loan fund 700 10 Commercial fishing loan fund 7,600 11 General fund/mental health 29,600 12 Real estate surety fund 300 13 Judicial retirement system 200 14 Public Law 81-874 300 15 National guard retirement system 100 16 Training and building fund 4,400 17 Permanent fund dividend fund 17,000 18 Rural development initiative fund 200 19 Oil/hazardous prevention/response 33,500 20 Investment loss trust fund 1,112,000 21 Interagency receipts/oil and hazardous waste 5,100 22 Capital improvement project receipts 295,200 23 Power project loan fund 2,500 24 Public school fund 100 25 Child care facility revolving loan fund 100 26 Fisheries enhancement revolving loan fund 700 27 Alternative energy revolving loan fund 500 28 Bulk fuel revolving loan fund 200 29 Alaska clean water loan fund 1,100 30 Marine highway system fund 252,400 31 Storage tank assistance fund 2,700
01 Mental health trust receipts 1,400 02 Clean air protection fund 8,300 03 Information services fund 36,800 04 Mental health trust authority authorized receipts 5,400 05 Children's trust fund earnings 100 06 Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority receipts 6,500 07 Alaska Housing Finance Corporation receipts 82,300 08 Alaska Municipal Bond Bank receipts 300 09 Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation receipts 7,100 10 Postsecondary education commission receipts 24,200 11 Alaska Energy Authority receipts 900 12 Designated program receipts 15,100 13 Test fisheries receipts 10,900 14 Alaska Public Utilities Commission receipts 10,900 15 * Sec. 23. SALMON ENHANCEMENT TAX. The salmon enhancement tax collected 16 under AS 43.76.010 - 43.76.030 in calendar year 1997 and deposited in the general fund under 17 AS 43.76.025(c) is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Commerce and 18 Economic Development for payment in fiscal year 1999 to qualified regional associations 19 operating within a region designated under AS 16.10.375. 20 * Sec. 24. SHARED TAXES AND FEES. The amount necessary to refund to local 21 governments their share of taxes and fees collected in the listed fiscal years under the 22 following programs is appropriated to the Department of Revenue from the general fund for 23 payment in fiscal year 1999: 24 REVENUE SOURCE FISCAL YEAR COLLECTED 25 fisheries taxes (AS 43.75) 1998 26 fishery resource landing tax (AS 43.77) 1998 27 amusement and gaming taxes (AS 43.35) 1999 28 aviation fuel tax (AS 43.40.010) 1999 29 electric and telephone cooperative tax (AS 10.25.570) 1999 30 liquor license fee (AS 04.11) 1999 31 * Sec. 25. STATE DEBT AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS. (a) The amount required to pay
01 interest on revenue anticipation notes issued by the commissioner of revenue under AS 43.08 02 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Revenue for payment of the 03 interest on those notes. 04 (b) The amount required to be paid by the state for principal and interest on all issued 05 and outstanding state-guaranteed bonds is appropriated from the general fund to the state bond 06 committee for payment of principal and interest on those bonds. 07 (c) The sum of $46,029,032 is appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska debt 08 retirement fund (AS 37.15.011). 09 (d) The sum of $16,331,216 is appropriated from the Alaska debt retirement fund 10 (AS 37.15.011) to the state bond committee for trustee fees and lease payments relating to 11 certificates of participation issued for real property. 12 (e) The sum of $8,871,807 is appropriated from the Alaska debt retirement fund 13 (AS 37.15.011) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees on 14 state general obligation bonds. 15 (f) The sum of $5,005,283 is appropriated from the International Airports Revenue 16 Fund (AS 37.15.430) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees 17 on outstanding international airports revenue bonds. 18 (g) The sum of $466,500 is appropriated from the Alaska clean water fund 19 (AS 46.03.032) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees on 20 outstanding clean water fund bonds. 21 (h) The sum of $60,804,147 is appropriated to the Department of Education for state 22 aid for costs of school construction under AS 14.11.100 from the following sources: 23 Alaska debt retirement fund (AS 37.15.011) $26,804,147 24 School fund (AS 43.50.140) 34,000,000 25 * Sec. 26. STATE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The lapsing balance 26 of the employment assistance and training program account (AS 23.15.625) on June 30, 1998, 27 is appropriated to the employment assistance and training program account for the fiscal year 28 ending June 30, 1999. 29 * Sec. 27. STATUTORY BUDGET RESERVE FUND. If the unrestricted state revenue 30 available for appropriation in fiscal year 1999 is insufficient to cover the general fund 31 appropriations made for fiscal year 1999, the amount necessary to balance revenue and general
01 fund appropriations is appropriated to the general fund from the budget reserve fund 02 (AS 37.05.540). 03 * Sec. 28. STORAGE TANK ASSISTANCE FUND. The sum of $4,364,800 is 04 appropriated from the oil and hazardous substance release prevention account 05 (AS 46.08.010(a)(1)) to the storage tank assistance fund (AS 46.03.410) for the fiscal year 06 ending June 30, 1999. 07 * Sec. 29. STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM. The amount from student loan borrowers of 08 the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education that is assessed for loan origination fees 09 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, is appropriated to the origination fee account 10 (AS 14.43.120(u)) within the student loan fund of the Alaska Student Loan Corporation for 11 the purposes specified in AS 14.43.120(u). 12 * Sec. 30. TEACHER CERTIFICATION. The unexpended and unobligated balance on 13 June 30, 1998, of the Department of Education, teacher certification general fund program 14 receipts from certification fees under AS 14.20.020(c) is appropriated to the Department of 15 Education, teacher certification, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 16 * Sec. 31. NONLAPSE OF APPROPRIATIONS. The appropriations made by secs. 1, 8, 17 10(a), 11, 12, 15, 18, 19, and 29 of this Act are for the capitalization of funds and do not 18 lapse. 19 (SECTION 32 OF THIS ACT BEGINS ON PAGE 16)