Bill No.: HB0001 Drafter: DKG

LSO No.: 06LSO-0436 Effective Date: 3/10/2006

Enrolled Act No.: HEA0011

Chapter No.: 36

Prime Sponsor: Joint Appropriations Interim Committee

Catch Title: General government appropriations.

Subject: Budget bill for general government.

Summary/Major Elements:

• The bill contains appropriations for the operations of state government for the biennium.
• Total general fund appropriations – $2,814,774,591
• Total budget reserve appropriations – $532,819,188
• Total federal fund appropriations – $1,297,951,801
• Total other funds appropriations – $2,621,273,157
• Total all funds appropriation – $7,266,818,737
• K-12 – Appropriates $1.1 billion for K-12 operations, $325 million for K-12 capital construction and $68.2 million for K-12 major maintenance.
• UW – Appropriates $347 million for University block grant including $35 million for the endowment program and $15 million for a facilities match program, $38.5 million for capital construction, $27.2 million for major maintenance and $4.2 million for the library.
• Community colleges – Appropriates $169.8 million for state aid to the colleges, $17 million for major maintenance, $3.8 million for capital construction and $2.8 million for college libraries.
• Health – Appropriates $660 million general fund, $580 million in federal funds and $56 million in other funds for a total budget of $1.3 billion. Additional funds of $65 million were set-aside if needed to fully fund department programs through the biennium.
• Corrections – $206 million for corrections operations and facilities.
• Local governments – Appropriates $80 million for direct distribution to locals, $171.6 million for SLIB grants to locals (of which up to $105 million can be for impacted locals and the remainder, at least $66 million, for non-impacted locals, additional $13 million to the less wealthy counties and the municipalities within those counties, $46 million for the business ready community program and $15 million for the community facility program.
• Compensation – Appropriates a total of approximately $70 million for state, University, community college and judicial branch employee’s compensation increases.
• Savings – Provides for a staggered deposit of $200 million into the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund and $183 million deposit to the Legislative Stabilization Reserve Account.
• State capital construction – Appropriates $217 million in general fund monies for various state, University and community college capital and major maintenance projects.
• Flex authority – Provides the Governor the authority to transfer up to 5% of an agency’s budget to another agency, and up to 10% of a program budget within an agency.
• Exempts food for domestic home consumption from state and local sales and use taxes for the biennium and appropriates funds to hold local governments "harmless" from the reduced sales tax receipts.

Comments:

· Popular name – Budget bill

· Report Required - Contains various reporting requirements.

· Contains delayed effective/repeal date – a number of appropriations are delayed.