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."
00CS 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 PERMANENT FUND CORPORATION. (a) The amount authorized 15 for transfer by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation under AS 37.13.145(b) is appropriated 16 from the earnings reserve account (AS 37.13.145) to the dividend fund (AS 43.23.045(a)) for 17 the payment of permanent fund dividends and administrative and associated costs. 18 (b) After money is transferred to the dividend fund under (a) of this section, the 19 amount calculated under AS 37.13.145 to offset the effect of inflation on the principal of the 20 Alaska permanent fund is appropriated from the earnings reserve account (AS 37.13.145) to 21 the principal of the Alaska permanent fund. 22 (c) The amount required to be deposited under AS 37.13.010(a)(1) and (2) during 23 fiscal year 1999 is appropriated to the principal of the Alaska permanent fund in satisfaction 24 of that requirement. 25 (d) The interest earned during fiscal year 1999 on revenue from the sources set out 26 in AS 37.13.010 while the revenue is held in trust, escrow, or otherwise before receipt by the 27 state is appropriated to the principal of the Alaska permanent fund. 28 * Sec. 3. ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. The unexpended and 29 unobligated balance on June 30, 1998, of the Alaska Public Utilities Commission receipts 30 account for regulatory cost charges under AS 42.05.254 and AS 42.06.286 for fiscal year 1998 31 is appropriated to the Alaska Public Utilities Commission for fiscal year 1999 expenditures.
01 * Sec. 4. ALASKA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION. The unexpended 02 and unobligated balance in the Alaska science and technology endowment earnings reserve 03 on June 30, 1998, is appropriated to the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation to award 04 as grants under AS 37.17.030(d) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 05 * Sec. 5. ALASKA SEAFOOD MARKETING INSTITUTE. An amount equal to the 06 unexpended and unobligated balance on June 30, 1998, of the fiscal year 1998 general fund 07 receipts from the salmon marketing tax (AS 43.76.110) and from the seafood marketing 08 assessment (AS 16.51.120) is appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska Seafood 09 Marketing Institute for marketing Alaska seafood products during fiscal year 1999. 10 * Sec. 6. CONSTITUTIONAL BUDGET RESERVE FUND. (a) Amounts equal to the 11 deposits in the budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, Constitution of the State of Alaska) for 12 fiscal year 1998 that were made from subfunds and accounts other than the unrestricted 13 general fund by operation of art. IX, sec. 17(d), Constitution of the State of Alaska, to repay 14 appropriations from the budget reserve fund are appropriated from the budget reserve fund to 15 the subfunds and accounts from which they were transferred. 16 (b) If the unrestricted state revenue available for appropriation in fiscal year 1999 is 17 insufficient to cover the general fund appropriations made for fiscal year 1999, the amount 18 necessary to balance revenue and general fund appropriations is appropriated to the general 19 fund from the budget reserve fund (art. IX, sec. 17, Constitution of the State of Alaska). 20 (c) The appropriations in (a) and (b) of this section are made under art. IX, sec. 17(c), 21 Constitution of the State of Alaska. 22 * Sec. 7. DISASTER RELIEF AND FIRE SUPPRESSION. Federal receipts received for 23 disaster relief are appropriated to the disaster relief fund (AS 26.23.300). 24 * Sec. 8. FEDERAL AND OTHER PROGRAM RECEIPTS. (a) Federal receipts, 25 designated program receipts as defined under AS 37.05.146(b)(3), receipts of commercial 26 fisheries test fishing operations under AS 37.05.146(b)(4)(U), and receipts of or from the trust 27 established by AS 37.14.400 - 37.14.450 (Exxon Valdez oil spill trust) that exceed the 28 amounts appropriated by this Act are appropriated conditioned on compliance with the 29 program review provisions of AS 37.07.080(h). 30 (b) If federal or other program receipts as defined in AS 37.05.146 exceed the 31 estimates appropriated by this Act, the appropriations from state funds for the affected
01 program may be reduced by the excess if the reductions are consistent with applicable federal 02 statutes. 03 (c) 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. 9. 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. 31 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. 31 of this Act is 18 reduced proportionately. 19 * Sec. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. 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. 21. SALARY AND BENEFIT ADJUSTMENTS. (a) The sum of $4,557,360 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 (g) 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 Alyeska Correspondence School Education Association, representing teachers at the Alyeska Central School; 27 Alaska Vocational Technical Center Teachers Association, representing teachers at the Alaska Vocational Technical 28 Center; 29 Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, representing the unlicensed marine unit; 30 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, representing nonjudicial, nonsupervisory, classified employees 31 of the Alaska Court System;
01 International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, Pacific Maritime Region for 02 the Masters, Mates, and Pilots Unit; 03 Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, representing licensed engineers employed by 04 the Alaska marine highway system; 05 Public Employees Local 71 for the Labor, Trades, and Crafts Unit; 06 Public Safety Employees Association, representing state troopers and other 07 commissioned law enforcement personnel; 08 Teachers' Education Association of Mt. Edgecumbe, representing teachers of the 09 Mt. Edgecumbe High School. 10 (c) Funding for salary and benefits adjustments for University of Alaska employees 11 who are not members of a collective bargaining unit and for the following collective 12 bargaining agreements is included in the appropriations made to the University of Alaska in 13 sec. 31 of this Act: 14 Alaska Classified Employees Association, representing certain employees of the 15 University of Alaska; 16 Alaska Community College Federation of Teachers, representing certain employees of 17 the University of Alaska; 18 United Academics, representing certain employees of the University of Alaska. 19 (d) The sum of $76,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Office of the 20 Governor, office of management and budget, to implement the monetary terms of the 21 collective bargaining agreement between the State of Alaska and the Confidential Employees 22 Association for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 23 (e) Except as described in (f) of this section, the appropriation made in (a) of this 24 section is the net funding increase for salary and benefit adjustments after deducting cost 25 savings resulting from decreases in employer contributions to the Public Employees 26 Retirement System (PERS). For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, the PERS employer 27 contribution rate declines 1.57 percent for police and fire employees and .81 percent for all 28 other executive branch employees except University of Alaska employees. 29 (f) The amount of operating budget appropriations made in sec. 31 of this Act to the 30 University of Alaska, the Alaska Court System, and the legislature includes any increase or 31 decrease caused by changes to the PERS contribution rate.
01 (g) The appropriation made in (a) of this section is allocated to the following agencies 02 from the following funding sources in the amounts listed: 03 AGENCY ALLOCATION 04 Administration $293,300 05 Commerce and Economic Development 87,300 06 Community and Regional Affairs 47,700 07 Corrections 348,600 08 Education 115,700 09 Environmental Conservation 133,000 10 Fish and Game 358,300 11 Office of the Governor 41,600 12 Health and Social Services 644,600 13 Labor 251,500 14 Law 98,300 15 Military and Veterans' Affairs 64,300 16 Natural Resources 181,600 17 Public Safety 177,100 18 Revenue 311,000 19 Transportation and Public Facilities 777,500 20 Transportation and Public Facilities/ 21 Alaska marine highway system fund 147,300 22 Alaska Court System 219,260 23 Legislature 259,400 24 FUNDING SOURCE AMOUNT 25 Federal receipts 743,200 26 General fund match 172,600 27 General fund receipts 981,060 28 General fund program receipts 210,400 29 Inter-agency receipts 224,800 30 Donated commodities handling fee account 500 31 Federal incentive payments 11,000
01 Benefit system receipts 7,700 02 Exxon Valdez oil spill settlement 21,800 03 Agricultural loan fund 4,600 04 FICA administration fund account 300 05 Fish and game fund 48,800 06 Science and technology endowment 2,700 07 Highway working capital fund 30,400 08 International airports revenue fund 110,200 09 Public employees retirement fund 9,900 10 Second injury fund reserve account 600 11 Disabled fisherman's reserve account 500 12 Surplus property revolving fund 1,300 13 Teachers' retirement system fund 8,500 14 Veterans' revolving loan fund 700 15 Commercial fishing loan fund 7,600 16 General fund/mental health 29,600 17 Real estate surety fund 300 18 Judicial retirement system 100 19 Public Law 81-874 300 20 National guard retirement system 100 21 Training and building fund 4,400 22 Permanent fund dividend fund 17,000 23 Rural development initiative fund 200 24 Oil/hazardous prevention/response 32,400 25 Investment loss trust fund 1,112,000 26 Interagency receipts/oil and hazardous waste 5,100 27 Capital improvement project receipts 294,000 28 Power project loan fund 2,500 29 Public school fund 100 30 Child care facility revolving loan fund 100 31 Fisheries enhancement revolving loan fund 700
01 Alternative energy revolving loan fund 500 02 Bulk fuel revolving loan fund 200 03 Alaska clean water loan fund 1,100 04 Marine highway system fund 245,500 05 Storage tank assistance fund 2,600 06 Mental health trust receipts 1,400 07 Clean air protection fund 8,200 08 Information services fund 36,800 09 Mental health trust authority authorized receipts 5,400 10 Children's trust fund earnings 100 11 Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority receipts 6,500 12 Alaska Housing Finance Corporation receipts 82,300 13 Alaska Municipal Bond Bank receipts 300 14 Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation receipts 7,100 15 Postsecondary education commission receipts 24,200 16 Alaska Energy Authority receipts 900 17 Designated program receipts 14,400 18 Test fisheries receipts 10,900 19 Alaska Public Utilities Commission receipts 10,900 20 * Sec. 22. SALMON ENHANCEMENT TAX. The salmon enhancement tax collected 21 under AS 43.76.010 - 43.76.030 in calendar year 1997 and deposited in the general fund under 22 AS 43.76.025(c) is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Commerce and 23 Economic Development for payment in fiscal year 1999 to qualified regional associations 24 operating within a region designated under AS 16.10.375. 25 * Sec. 23. SHARED TAXES AND FEES. The amount necessary to refund to local 26 governments their share of taxes and fees collected in the listed fiscal years under the 27 following programs is appropriated to the Department of Revenue from the general fund for 28 payment in fiscal year 1999: 29 REVENUE SOURCE FISCAL YEAR COLLECTED 30 fisheries taxes (AS 43.75) 1998 31 fishery resource landing tax (AS 43.77) 1998
01 amusement and gaming taxes (AS 43.35) 1999 02 aviation fuel tax (AS 43.40.010) 1999 03 electric and telephone cooperative tax (AS 10.25.570) 1999 04 liquor license fee (AS 04.11) 1999 05 * Sec. 24. STATE DEBT AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS. (a) The amount required to pay 06 interest on revenue anticipation notes issued by the commissioner of revenue under AS 43.08 07 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Revenue for payment of the 08 interest on those notes. 09 (b) The amount required to be paid by the state for principal and interest on all issued 10 and outstanding state-guaranteed bonds is appropriated from the general fund to the state bond 11 committee for payment of principal and interest on those bonds. 12 (c) The sum of $46,029,032 is appropriated from the general fund to the Alaska debt 13 retirement fund (AS 37.15.011). 14 (d) The sum of $16,331,216 is appropriated from the Alaska debt retirement fund 15 (AS 37.15.011) to the state bond committee for trustee fees and lease payments relating to 16 certificates of participation issued for real property. 17 (e) The sum of $8,871,807 is appropriated from the Alaska debt retirement fund 18 (AS 37.15.011) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees on 19 state general obligation bonds. 20 (f) The sum of $5,005,283 is appropriated from the International Airports Revenue 21 Fund (AS 37.15.430) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees 22 on outstanding international airports revenue bonds. 23 (g) The sum of $466,500 is appropriated from the Alaska clean water fund 24 (AS 46.03.032) to the state bond committee for payment of debt service and trustee fees on 25 outstanding clean water fund bonds. 26 (h) The sum of $60,804,147 is appropriated to the Department of Education for state 27 aid for costs of school construction under AS 14.11.100 from the following sources: 28 Alaska debt retirement fund (AS 37.15.011) $26,804,147 29 School fund (AS 43.50.140) 34,000,000 30 * Sec. 25. STATE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The lapsing balance 31 of the employment assistance and training program account (AS 23.15.625) on June 30, 1998,
01 is appropriated to the unemployment compensation fund (AS 23.20.130). 02 * Sec. 26. STATUTORY BUDGET RESERVE FUND. If the unrestricted state revenue 03 available for appropriation in fiscal year 1999 is insufficient to cover the general fund 04 appropriations made for fiscal year 1999, the amount necessary to balance revenue and general 05 fund appropriations is appropriated to the general fund from the budget reserve fund 06 (AS 37.05.540). 07 * Sec. 27. STORAGE TANK ASSISTANCE FUND. The sum of $4,364,800 is 08 appropriated from the oil and hazardous substance release prevention account 09 (AS 46.08.010(a)(1)) to the storage tank assistance fund (AS 46.03.410) for the fiscal year 10 ending June 30, 1999. 11 * Sec. 28. STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM. The amount from student loan borrowers of 12 the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education that is assessed for loan origination fees 13 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, is appropriated to the origination fee account 14 (AS 14.43.120(u)) within the student loan fund of the Alaska Student Loan Corporation for 15 the purposes specified in AS 14.43.120(u). 16 * Sec. 29. TEACHER CERTIFICATION. The unexpended and unobligated balance on 17 June 30, 1998, of the Department of Education, teacher certification general fund program 18 receipts from certification fees under AS 14.20.020(c) is appropriated to the Department of 19 Education, teacher certification, for operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999. 20 * Sec. 30. NONLAPSE OF APPROPRIATIONS. The appropriations made by secs. 1, 7, 21 9(a), 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 25, and 28 of this Act are for the capitalization of funds and do not 22 lapse. 23 (SECTION 31 OF THIS ACT BEGINS ON PAGE 16)