CSHB 343(FIN)(TITLE AM): "An Act making supplemental appropriations, amending appropriations, reappropriations, and making appropriations for winter storm costs and for planning and design of a university museum; making a reappropriation under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, from the constitutional budget reserve fund; ratifying certain expenditures; and providing for an effective date."
00CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 343(FIN)(title am) 01 "An Act making supplemental appropriations, amending appropriations, 02 reappropriations, and making appropriations for winter storm costs and for 03 planning and design of a university museum; making a reappropriation under 04 art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, from the constitutional 05 budget reserve fund; ratifying certain expenditures; and providing for an effective 06 date." 07 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 08 * Section 1. FIRE SUPPRESSION. The sum of $6,415,100 is appropriated from the 09 general fund to the Department of Natural Resources for incurred fire suppression expenditures 10 and fixed costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 11 * Sec. 2. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION. (a) The sum of $118,600 is 12 appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Administration, division of senior 13 services, for operating costs of the general relief program for the fiscal year ending June 30, 14 2000.
01 (b) The sum of $100,000 is appropriated from the public employees retirement trust 02 fund (AS 39.35.020(6)) to the Department of Administration, division of retirement and 03 benefits, for costs associated with an unexpected Public Employees' Retirement Board election 04 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 05 * Sec. 3. ALASKA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND EXPORT AUTHORITY. The 06 sum of $8,000,000 that was declared available for appropriation by the board of directors of 07 the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority as a one-time additional fiscal year 08 2000 dividend from the unrestricted balance in the Alaska Industrial Development and Export 09 Authority revolving fund (AS 44.88.060) is appropriated in sec. 13 of this Act. 10 * Sec. 4. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT. (a) The 11 sum of $1,500,000 is appropriated from interagency receipts to the Department of Education 12 and Early Development from the Department of Health and Social Services for the child care 13 assistance program for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 14 (b) Section 43, ch. 84, SLA 1999, page 23, line 31, is amended to read: 15 ALLOCATIONS 16 Foundation Program 686,914,600 17 [689,054,300] 18 (c) Section 43, ch. 84, SLA 1999, page 24, line 10, is amended to read: 19 ALLOCATIONS 20 Pupil Transportation 41,914,800 21 [39,775,100] 22 * Sec. 5. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES. (a) The sum of 23 $608,600 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Health and Social 24 Services for catastrophic and chronic illness assistance (AS 47.08) for the fiscal year ending 25 June 30, 2000. 26 (b) The sum of $1,500,000 is appropriated from federal receipts to the Department of 27 Health and Social Services, child care benefits, for costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 28 2000. 29 (c) The sum of $2,361,100 is appropriated from federal receipts to the Department of 30 Health and Social Services, energy assistance program, low income home energy assistance 31 program, for emergency heating assistance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.
01 * Sec. 6. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. Section 55, ch. 2, FSSLA 1999, is amended to read: 02 Sec. 55. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. The appropriations made in sec. 3, ch. 7, 03 SLA 1998 (Department of Law defense of tort reform - $199,500) and in sec. 30(a), 04 ch. 139, SLA 1998 (Department of Law, medical procedures and parental consent for 05 abortions - $300,000) lapse into the general fund June 30, 2001 [2000]. 06 * Sec. 7. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS. (a) The sum 07 of $24,200 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Military and Veterans' 08 Affairs, Alaska National Guard, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 09 (b) The sum of $212,400 is appropriated from federal receipts to the Department of 10 Military and Veterans' Affairs, air guard facilities maintenance, for operating costs for the 11 fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 12 (c) The sum of $692,600 is appropriated to the Department of Military and Veterans' 13 Affairs, youth corps, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, from the 14 following sources: 15 Federal receipts $582,100 16 Designated program receipts 110,500 17 * Sec. 8. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The sum of $620,200 is appropriated from the 18 following sources to the Department of Revenue, child support enforcement division, for a 19 one-time project to reduce the backlog of case adjustments for the fiscal years ending June 30, 20 2000, and June 30, 2001: 21 General fund program receipts $150,000 22 Federal receipts 470,200 23 * Sec. 9. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES. (a) The 24 sum of $500,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Transportation 25 and Public Facilities, marine highway system, for increased fuel costs for the fiscal year 26 ending June 30, 2000. 27 (b) The sum of $25,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 28 Transportation and Public Facilities, northern region facilities, for unanticipated winter storm 29 costs incurred outside the declared Central Gulf Coast storm systems disaster area. 30 (c) The sum of $900,000 is appropriated from the International Airports Revenue Fund 31 (AS 37.15.430) to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Anchorage airport,
01 for additional operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 02 (d) The sum of $248,900 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 03 Transportation and Public facilities, northern region, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, 04 to pay the costs of snow removal and opening of the following roads and is allocated in the 05 following amounts: 06 HIGHWAY ALLOCATION 07 Taylor $132,000 08 Boundary Spur 10,500 09 Nome-Teller 35,700 10 Nome-Council 34,700 11 Kougarok 36,000 12 (e) The sum of $50,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of 13 Transportation and Public Facilities for operation of the Kodiak-Chiniak/Pasagshak road station 14 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 15 * Sec. 10. UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA. The sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated to the 16 University of Alaska for planning and design of a university museum from the following 17 sources: 18 University receipts $500,000 19 Federal receipts 500,000 20 * Sec. 11. LONGEVITY BONUS GRANT PROGRAM. (a) Notwithstanding sec. 5, 21 ch. 27, SLA 1999, the unexpended and unobligated balances as of March 31, 2000, of the 22 constitutional budget reserve fund appropriations made in sec. 2(a), ch. 27, SLA 1999, page 2, 23 line 3, page 3, line 31, page 4, line 17, and page 4, line 20, are repealed and reappropriated 24 to the Department of Administration, longevity bonus grant program, for operating costs for 25 the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. 26 (b) If the amount reappropriated in (a) of this section is not sufficient to fully fund 27 the longevity bonus grant program for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, the amount of the 28 shortfall is appropriated from the general fund. 29 (c) The appropriation in (a) of this section is made under art. IX, sec. 17(c), 30 Constitution of the State of Alaska. 31 * Sec. 12. NORTHWEST ARCTIC BOROUGH SCHOOLS. (a) Section 133, ch. 139,
01 SLA 1998, page 116, lines 26 - 31, is amended to read: 02 APPROPRIATION OTHER 03 ITEMS FUNDS 04 Northwest Arctic Borough Schools - Ambler [HIGH] 765,832 765,832 05 School [RENOVATION PROJECT] (ED 37) [1,690,400] [1,690,400] 06 Northwest Arctic Borough Schools - Kiana [HIGH] 833,511 833,511 07 School [RENOVATION PROJECT] (ED 37) [2,228,511] [2,228,511] 08 (b) Section 133, ch. 139, SLA 1998, page 118, lines 12 - 14, is amended to read: 09 APPROPRIATION OTHER 10 ITEMS FUNDS 11 Northwest Arctic - Buckland School 14,655,709 14,655,709 12 Remediation Project Phase II (ED 37) [12,336,141] [12,336,141] 13 * Sec. 13. POWER COST EQUALIZATION. The sum of $8,000,000 is appropriated from 14 the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority revolving fund (AS 44.88.060) to the 15 power cost equalization and rural electric capitalization fund (AS 42.45.100). 16 * Sec. 14. REDISTRICTING PLANNING COMMITTEE. (a) The unexpended and 17 unobligated balance, not to exceed $350,000, of the appropriation made by sec. 70, ch. 2, 18 FSSLA 1999 (special election - $939,000) is reappropriated to the Legislative Council for the 19 fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, for the redistricting planning committee for preparation for 20 the 2000 redistricting plan. 21 (b) If the amount available for reappropriation under (a) of this section is less than 22 $350,000, then the unexpended and unobligated balance, not to exceed the difference between 23 $350,000 and the amount available for reappropriation under (a) of this section, of the 24 appropriations made by sec. 64(a), ch. 2, FSSLA 1999 (Legislative Council), sec. 64(b), ch. 25 2, FSSLA 1999 (Legislative Budget and Audit Committee), sec. 64(c), ch. 2, FSSLA 1999 26 (Legislative Budget and Audit Committee), and sec. 64(d), ch. 2, FSSLA 1999 (Legislative 27 Council) is reappropriated to the Legislative Council for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, 28 for the redistricting planning committee for preparation for the 2000 redistricting plan. 29 * Sec. 15. RATIFICATIONS. (a) The following departmental expenditures made in fiscal 30 years 1998 and 1999 are ratified to reverse the negative account balances in the Alaska state 31 accounting system in the amounts listed for each AR number. The appropriations from which
01 these expenditures were actually paid are amended by increasing them by the amount listed 02 as follows: 03 (1) Department of Administration 04 AR7688-98 RS 0270267 Personnel $ 2,379.50 05 (2) Former Department of Community and 06 Regional Affairs 07 (A) AR52902-98 AHFC/St Energy Prg-Ib 3,324.50 08 (B) AR52925-98 HSS/Admn Child Trust 24.19 09 (C) AR52926-98 JTPO/Peer Outreach 20.00 10 (D) AR52936-98 Rural Gov Commission 342.00 11 (3) Department of Health and Social Services 12 AR22520-99 Medicaid Services 3,271,600.00 13 (b) The expenditures by the Department of Natural Resources for fire suppression, in 14 the amount of $3,863,700, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999 (AR37931-99 Fire 15 Suppression) are ratified. 16 * Sec. 16. LAPSE PROVISIONS. (a) The appropriations made by secs. 9(b) and 10 of 17 this Act are for capital projects and lapse under AS 37.25.020. 18 (b) The appropriation made by sec. 13 of this Act is to capitalize a fund and does not 19 lapse. 20 * Sec. 17. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).