00                              HOUSE BILL NO. 84                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee; and requiring state                                     
02 agencies, municipalities, and regional educational attendance areas to report on federal                                
03 receipts."                                                                                                              
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 24.20.206 is amended to read:                                                                      
06            Sec. 24.20.206. Duties. The Legislative Budget and Audit Committee shall                                   
07                 (1)  annually review the long-range operating plans of all agencies of                                  
08       the state that perform lending or investment functions;                                                           
09                 (2)  review periodic reports from all agencies of the state that perform                                
10       lending or investment functions;                                                                                  
11                 (3)  prepare a complete report of investment programs, plans,                                           
12       performance, and policies of all agencies of the state that perform lending or                                    
13       investment functions and notify the legislature on or before the first day of each                                
14       regular session that the report is available;                                                                     
01                 (4)  in conjunction with the finance committee of each house,                                           
02       recommend annually to the legislature the investment policy for the general fund                                  
03       surplus and for the income from the permanent fund;                                                               
04                 (5)  provide for an annual post audit and annual operational and                                        
05       performance evaluation of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation investments and                                   
06       investment programs;                                                                                              
07                 (6)  provide for an annual operational and performance evaluation of                                    
08       the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and the Alaska Industrial Development and                                  
09       Export Authority; the performance evaluation must include, but is not limited to, a                               
10       comparison of the effect on various sectors of the economy by public and private                                  
11       lending, the effect on resident and nonresident employment, the effect on real wages,                             
12       and the effect on state and local operating and capital budgets of the programs of the                            
13       Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and the Alaska Industrial Development and                                      
14       Export Authority;                                                                                                 
15                 (7)  provide assistance to the trustees of the trust established in                                     
16       AS 37.14.400 - 37.14.450 in carrying out their duties under AS 37.14.415;                                     
17                 (8)  review the annual report submitted by the Department of                                        
18       Administration under AS 37.05.215(b) for the preceding fiscal year at the next                                
19       regular meeting of the committee and recommend to the legislature whether to                                  
20       reduce or repeal any appropriations based on the report.                                                      
21    * Sec. 2. AS 37.05 is amended by adding a new section to article 2 to read:                                        
22            Sec. 37.05.215. Federal receipts reporting requirements. (a) On or before                                  
23       October 31 each year, each state agency and municipality shall prepare and submit to                              
24       the Department of Administration a report that                                                                    
25                 (1)  states the total amount of federal receipts the state agency or                                    
26       municipality received for the previous fiscal year;                                                               
27                 (2)  identifies all conditions or requirements a state agency or                                        
28       municipality shall meet to receive the federal receipts;                                                          
29                 (3)  states whether the state is required to match, supplement, or replace                              
30       the federal receipts if the receipts diminish;                                                                    
31                 (4)  states the aggregate amount of federal receipts appropriated by the                                
01       legislature to the state agency or municipality in the previous fiscal year;                                      
02                 (5)  states the percentage of the total budget that the federal receipts                                
03       represent for the state agency or municipality for the previous fiscal year;                                      
04                 (6)  describes the plan for operating the state agency or municipality if                               
05       there is a reduction of                                                                                           
06                      (A)  between five and 25 percent in the amount of federal                                          
07            receipts received by the state agency or municipality; and                                                   
08                      (B)  more than 25 percent in the amount of federal receipts                                        
09            received by the state agency or municipality.                                                                
10            (b)  By November 30 of each year, the Department of Administration shall                                     
11       prepare and submit to the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee a report that                                    
12                 (1)  compiles and summarizes the information submitted under (a) of                                     
13       this section;                                                                                                     
14                 (2)  compares the aggregate value of the federal receipts each state                                    
15       agency and municipality received for the previous fiscal year to the total budget of the                          
16       state agency or municipality for the same fiscal year; and                                                        
17                 (3)  identifies any state agencies or municipalities that did not submit                                
18       the information required in (a) of this section.                                                                  
19            (c)  A state agency or municipality may not accept federal receipts that require                             
20       the state to match, supplement, or replace the federal receipts without an appropriation                          
21       for the amount of the match, supplement, or replacement by the legislature.                                       
22            (d)  In this section,                                                                                        
23                 (1)  "federal receipts" means financial assistance that a state agency or                               
24       municipality receives in the form of grants, loans, loan guarantees, property,                                    
25       cooperative agreements, interest subsidies, insurance, food commodities, direct                                   
26       appropriations, incentives, or other assistance from the federal government that is                               
27       reported as part of a single audit;                                                                               
28                 (2)  "state agency" means, notwithstanding the definition in                                            
29       AS 37.05.990, a department, institution, board, commission, division, authority, public                           
30       corporation, committee, regional educational attendance area, or other administrative                             
31       unit of the executive branch of state government, including the University of Alaska;                             
01       "state agency" does not include an office or entity in the judicial or legislative branch                         
02       of state government.