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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T





SPONSOR: Altamirano DATE TYPED: 01/24/01 HB
SHORT TITLE: General Appropriation Act of 2001 SB 98
ANALYST: Burch


APPROPRIATION



Appropriation Contained
Estimated Additional Impact
 Recurring

or Non-Rec

 Fund

Affected

FY01 FY02 FY01 FY02
$ 4,500.0 $ 3,802,719.8 Recurring GF
$ 3,979.0 $ 1,603,059.7 Recurring OSF
$ 500.0 $ 759,936.4 Recurring ISF/IAT
$ 0.0 $ 2,918,635.0 Recurring FF
$ 26,991.5 Nonrecurring GF
$ 27,665.3 Nonrecurring OSF
$ 0.0 Nonrecurring ISF/IAT
$ 20,162.5 Nonrecurring FF



(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)



NOTE: GF=General Fund; OSF=Other State Funds; ISF/IAT=Internal Services Funds/Interagency Transfers; and FF=Federal Funds



Conflicts with/Duplicates/Companion to House Bills 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8



SOURCES OF INFORMATION



LFC files.



SUMMARY



Synopsis of Bill



Senate Bill 98 appropriates general fund, other state funds, internal service funds/interagency transfers and federal funds for the operation of state agencies, higher education and public school support. The bill includes funding for 20,948.85 permanent, 2,372.50 term and 313.30 temporary employees for a total of 23,634.65 employees. See Attachment A, Section 4 for general fund appropriations by agency. See the fiscal implications section of this report for the breakout of appropriations between recurring and nonrecurring and funding sources.



1. Section 4, Fiscal Year 2002 Appropriations (pages 5 through 50). This section provides funding for state agencies, higher education and public school support that have not yet transitioned into performance-based budgeting.



2. Section 5, Fiscal Year 2002 Performance-Based Budgeting Appropriations (pages 50 through 161). Section 5 provides performance-based funding to agencies included in the first- and second-year implementation of the Accountability in Government Act enacted by the Legislature in 1999. The section provides funding for the following 22 agencies and six higher education special projects selected to transition to performance-based budgeting for FY02:



Please see Attachment A, Section 5 for a detail of the general fund appropriations by agency.



3. Section 6, Special Appropriations (pages 161 through 162); Section 7, Supplemental and Deficiency Appropriations (pages 162 through 163); and Section 8, Data Processing Appropriations (pages 163 through 167). Section 6 appropriates money for expenditure in FY01 and FY02 for various special purposes and to fund the computer systems enhancement fund. Section 7 appropriates money for expenditure in FY01 to make up shortfalls in FY00 and projected shortfalls in FY02.

Section 8 appropriates money from the computer systems enhancement and other funds for expenditure in FY01 and FY02 for major information technology projects. Please see Attachment B for specifics.



4. Section 9, Compensation Appropriations (pages 167 through 170). Section 9 appropriates money for expenditure in FY02 for salary increases for state and higher education employees. Compensation increases for public school employees are included in the state equalization guarantee and transportation appropriations of Public School Support in Section 4 of the bill as follows. Please see Attachment C for funding specifics.



Significant Issues



General operating appropriations for most legislative agencies are contained in House Bill 1, the Feed Bill.



PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS



Section 5 (pages 50 - 161) contains performance measures for every agency implementing performance-based budgeting in FY02.



FISCAL IMPLICATIONS



Appropriations are summarized as follows:



Fiscal Year 2001 Fiscal Year 2002
Section GF OSF ISF/IAT FF GF OSF ISF/IAT FF
Recurring:
4.FY02 Approps 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2,534,270.5 1,048,943.5 240,890.2 688,660.2
5.FY02 PBB 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1,210,814.6 554,116.2 519,046.2 2,229,975.5
6.Special 4,500.0 479.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
7.Supp/Def 0.0 3,500.0 500.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
9.Compensation 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 57,634.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Recurring 4,500.0 3,979.0 500.0 0.0 3,802,719.8 1,603,059.7 759,936.4 2,918,635.7
Non-recurring:
6.Special 22,666.5 313.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
7.Supp/Def 4,325.0 360.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
8.Data Process 0.0 26,991.5 0.0 20,162.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total

Nonrecurring

 26,991.5 27,665.3 0.0 20,162.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



Finally the amended substitute bill appropriates money from the tobacco settlement program fund as follows:



Agency Program Amount
Human Services Department Early childhood development home visits 475.0
Human Services Department Medicaid smoking cessation 450.0
Human Services Department SCHIP for working poor parents 5,322.6
Human Services Department Medicaid base 3,000.0
Human Services Department Breast and cervical cancer treatment 300.0
Department of Health Tobacco prevention and cessation programs 5,000.0
Department of Health HIV services and medicine 750.0
Department of Health Diabetes programs 1,000.0
University of New Mexico Various 4,400.0
State Department of Public Education Media literacy project 275.0
Total
 20,972.6




CONFLICT/DUPLICATION/RELATIONSHIP



Senate Bill 98: (1) relates to House Bill 1, the Feed Bill, since it includes appropriations for the operation of the Legislature; and (2) duplicates appropriations contained in House Bills 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.



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