SB 74: "An Act extending lapse dates for certain prior year appropriations; making supplemental, capital, and special appropriations; and providing for an effective date."
00SENATE BILL NO. 74 01 "An Act extending lapse dates for certain prior year appropriations; making 02 supplemental, capital, and special appropriations; and providing for an effective 03 date." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 * Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION. (a) The sum of $1,018,700 is 06 appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Administration for the leasing and 07 facilities program for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 08 (b) The sum of $317,500 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 09 Administration, office of public advocacy, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending 10 June 30, 1997. 11 (c) The sum of $268,900 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 12 Administration, public defender agency, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 13 1997. 14 (d) The sum of $65,600 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of
01 Administration for the elected public officers retirement system for the fiscal year ending 02 June 30, 1997. 03 (e) The sum of $243,300 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 04 Administration to pay for settlement of ABBA, Inc. v. State (1JU-96-1773 CI), relating to a 05 procurement dispute concerning a state lease for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 06 (f) The sum of $104,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 07 Administration to pay costs associated with adjudicatory claims relating to the Department of 08 Environmental Conservation laboratory for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 09 * Sec. 2. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. The sum of $2,300,000 is appropriated 10 from the general fund to the Department of Corrections as a capital project for partial funding 11 to provide additional womens' correctional facilities in satisfaction of fines levied by the 12 superior court relating to Cleary, et al v. Smith, et al (3 AN-81-5274 CI). 13 * Sec. 3. DISASTER RELIEF FUND. The sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated from the 14 general fund to the disaster relief fund (AS 26.23.300) to recapitalize that fund. 15 * Sec. 4. EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT AND DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. (a) The 16 sum of $632,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Corrections for 17 the replacement of the boiler system at the Fairbanks Correctional Center. 18 (b) The sum of $1,247,400 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department 19 of Health and Social Services, division of family and youth services, for improved security 20 at McLaughlin Youth Center and Fairbanks Youth Facility. 21 (c) The sum of $200,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 22 Health and Social Services for emergency communications equipment. 23 (d) The sum of $100,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 24 Military and Veterans' Affairs for radio equipment. 25 (e) The sum of $200,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 26 Natural Resources for emergency repairs to the Perseverance Trail. 27 * Sec. 5. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES. (a) The sum of 28 $939,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Health and Social 29 Services to meet the costs of the adult public assistance program caseload for the fiscal year 30 ending June 30, 1997. 31 (b) The sum of $10,000,000 is appropriated from federal receipts to the Department
01 of Health and Social Services for increased Indian Health Service Medicaid reimbursement 02 rates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 03 (c) The sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department 04 of Health and Social Services, division of family and youth services, for foster care program 05 costs for children in the department's custody who require placement for the fiscal year ending 06 June 30, 1997. 07 (d) The sum of $685,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 08 Health and Social Services, division of family and youth services, McLaughlin Youth Center, 09 for increased costs caused by population increases for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 10 * Sec. 6. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. (a) Section 26(a), ch. 94, SLA 1995 is amended to 11 read: 12 Sec. 26. (a) The sum of $20,000,000 is appropriated to the Department of 13 Law from the following sources, for costs relating to legal proceedings and audit 14 activity involving oil and gas revenue due or paid to the state or state title to oil and 15 gas land, for the fiscal years [YEAR] ending June 30, 1996, and June 30, 1997: 16 State corporation receipts $ 3,160,000 17 Budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, 18 Constitution of the State of Alaska) 16,840,000 19 (b) The sum of $97,072 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 20 Law to pay judgments and claims against the state for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 21 (c) The sum of $485,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 22 Law for the purpose of advocating the state's legal position on the sovereign powers of Native 23 tribal governments in the state. Amounts from this appropriation may be expended by the 24 Department of Law for the cost of representation and advocacy before federal and state courts, 25 federal administrative agencies, and the United States Congress. 26 * Sec. 7. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS. The sum of 27 $220,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Military and Veterans' 28 Affairs for the emergency alert system. 29 * Sec. 8. MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS. The following amounts are appropriated from the 30 general fund to the following departments to pay miscellaneous claims and stale-dated 31 warrants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997:
01 DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION 02 Administration $27,273 03 Corrections 8,330 04 Health and Social Services 22,235 05 Public Safety 4,254 06 Transportation and Public Facilities 903 07 * Sec. 9. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES. (a) The sum of $3,788,300 is 08 appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Natural Resources for fire 09 suppression activities for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 10 (b) The sum of $300,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 11 Natural Resources for refunds owed by the veterans' land discount program (AS 38.05.940) 12 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 13 (c) The sum of $100,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 14 Natural Resources for removal of existing buildings and other associated facilities at the Old 15 Eagle School site for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 16 * Sec. 10. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. The unexpended and unobligated 17 balance of the appropriation made in sec. 30, ch. 117, SLA 1996, page 43, line 32 and 18 allocated on line 34 (Village Public Safety Officer Program, Contracts, $4,965,500) lapses into 19 the general fund June 30, 1998. 20 * Sec. 11. RATIFICATIONS OF THE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM. The following 21 departmental expenditures made in fiscal years 1985 to 1995 are ratified to reverse the 22 negative account balances in the Alaska state accounting system in the amounts listed for each 23 AR number. The appropriations from which these expenditures were actually paid are 24 amended by increasing them by the amount listed, as follows: 25 (1) Department of Administration 26 (A) AR 3583-85 Property Management $47,182.23 27 (B) AR 3581-86 Retirement and Benefits 654.29 28 (2) Department of Labor 29 (A) AR 27540-91 Workers' Incentive 17,423.03 30 (B) AR 27849-93 Alaska Work Program 7,756.15 31 (3) Department of Health and Social Services
01 (A) AR 22750-85 Fairbanks DOE Food Service 3,236.50 02 (B) AR 22751-85 Johnson Center Doc 151.84 03 (C) AR 22783-85 Laboratories 84 1,069.00 04 (D) AR 22752-88 Substance Abuse Res 10.00 05 (E) AR 22755-88 Epidemiology - Traffic 200.56 06 (F) AR 22788-88 Fairbanks MH Facil Maint 0.01 07 (G) AR 23031-89 Southern Region EMS Life-Pak 0.07 08 (H) AR 25063-89 PFD Hold Harmless 1,058.72 09 (I) AR 24649-90 Harborview Dev Ctr 31,464.50 10 (J) AR 22753-90 AK Trauma Registry 0.45 11 (K) AR 22796-90 Human Svc Valdez Oil 11,853.13 12 (L) AR 22797-90 Child Nutrition Prog 4,305.11 13 (M) AR 22713-92 FY92 OAC Nutrition 0.02 14 (N) AR 22724-92 Inmate Hlt Care Xray 14,500.00 15 (O) AR 22739-94 MIS Tech Asst ADA 293.11 16 (P) AR 22885-89 EIS Phase 1 0.80 17 (Q) AR 23122-95 MMIS 191,255.71 18 (4) Department of Natural Resources 19 (A) AR 36631-91 Fire Federal Receipts 409,723.98 20 (B) AR 37311-93 Fire Federal Receipts 48,249.95 21 (C) AR 36893-90 Law Valdez Oil Spill 300.00 22 * Sec. 12. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. (a) The sum of $31,000 is appropriated from 23 the general fund to the Department of Revenue, treasury division, for equity investment 24 management fees for the constitutional budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, Constitution of 25 the State of Alaska) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 26 (b) The purpose of the supplemental appropriation made by (a) of this section is to 27 pay management fees necessary to implement a new asset allocation of the constitutional 28 budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, Constitution of the State of Alaska) for the remainder 29 of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. This asset allocation will include equities to improve 30 the long-term earning potential for investment of the principal of the constitutional budget 31 reserve fund. The appropriation made by (a) of this section is made with the intent that an
01 amount also will be appropriated to pay for such management fees for the fiscal year ending 02 June 30, 1998, in the general appropriations Act (the operating budget) for that fiscal year. 03 * Sec. 13. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES. The 04 sum of $391,400 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Transportation 05 and Public Facilities, Alaska marine highway system, for increased fuel costs for the fiscal 06 year ending June 30, 1997. 07 * Sec. 14. ALASKA COURT SYSTEM. The sum of $44,500 is appropriated from the 08 general fund to the Alaska Court System to address the effect of welfare reform legislation 09 (ch. 107, SLA 1996) on the trial courts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997. 10 * Sec. 15. The appropriation made by sec. 3 of this Act is to capitalize a statutory fund 11 and does not lapse under AS 37.25.010. 12 * Sec. 16. The appropriations made by secs. 2 and 4 of this Act are for capital projects and 13 lapse under AS 37.25.020. 14 * Sec. 17. The appropriations made by secs. 6(c) and 7 of this Act lapse into the general 15 fund June 30, 1998. 16 * Sec. 18. Section 6(a) of this Act is retroactive to July 1, 1996. 17 * Sec. 19. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).