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

 

 

 

SPONSOR:

Coll

 

DATE TYPED:

01/29/03

 

HB

7

 

SHORT TITLE:

General Appropriation Act of 2003

 

SB

 

 

 

ANALYST:

Fernandez

 

APPROPRIATION

 

Appropriation Contained

Estimated Additional Impact

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY03

FY04

FY03

FY04

 

 

42,277.3

3,988,743.5

 

 

Recurring

General Fund

10,922.9

1,739,096.7

 

 

Recurring

Other State Funds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

847,046.3

 

 

 

 

 

Recurring

Internal Service Funds/Inter-agency Transfers

148,346.6

3,447,285.0

 

 

Recurring

Federal Funds

26,140.0

 

 

 

Nonrecurring

General Fund

11,775.6

 

 

 

Nonrecurring

Other State Funds

109,774.1

 

 

 

Nonrecurring

Federal Funds

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

 

Conflicts with    House Bill 2 and Duplicates Senate Bill 2

 

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

 

LFC Files

 

SUMMARY

 

     Synopsis of Bill

 

House Bill 7 represents the Legislative Finance Committee recommendation for funding the FY04 recurring operations of state government.  It 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 21,063.10 permanent, 2,770.6 term and 187.5 temporary employees for a total of 24,021.20 employees.  See the fiscal implications section of this report for the breakout of appropriations between recurring and nonrecurring funding sources.

 

 

1.                  Section 4, Fiscal Year 2004 Appropriations (pages 5 through 198).  This section provides funding for state agencies, higher education and public school support.  See Attachment A for general fund appropriations by agency. 

2.                  Section 5 Special Appropriations (pages 199 through 201); Section 6, Supplemental and Deficiency Appropriations (pages 201 through 202); Section 7, Data Processing Appropriations (pages 202 through 205); and Section 8, Compensation Appropriations (pages 205 through 207). Please see Attachment B for specifics.

 

·        Section 5 appropriates money for expenditure in FY03 and FY04 for various special purposes. 

·        Section 6 appropriates money for expenditure in FY03 to make up shortfalls in FY02 and projected shortfalls in FY03.

·        Section 7 appropriates money for expenditures in FY03 and FY04 for major information technology projects. 

·        Section 8 appropriates money for a 2 percent salary increase for legislative, judicial, district attorneys and other public employees, effective January 2004.  Section 8 also appropriates a 2 percent salary increase for higher education faculty and staff effective July 2003.  (Under Section 4, Public School Support, the state equalization guarantee contains sufficient funds to provide a 2.5 percent salary increase for teachers and a 2 percent salary increase for all other public school employees, effective July 2003.)

 

     Significant Issues

 

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

 

Supplemental budget adjustment authority for FY03 or budget adjustment authority for FY04, usually included in the General Appropriation Act, is not included in this introduced version.  It is expected that such authority will be included in future substitutes or amendments of this bill.

 

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

 

The appropriations contained in this bill can be summarized as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agency

 General Fund

 Other State Funds

 Internal Service Funds/ Operating Transfers

 Federal Funds

 Total

   SECTION 4 FY04 Operating

        Recurring:

 

 

 

 

 

Legislative

           3,399.9

 

 

 

           3,399.9

Judicial

       132,813.5

         12,532.1

           5,143.9

           5,213.2

       155,702.7

General Control

       133,754.0

       220,539.2

       533,119.2

         22,898.0

       910,310.4

Commerce & Industry

         44,691.4

         40,720.6

           6,491.0

              550.3

         92,453.3

Agric., Enrgy & Ntrl Rsrcs

         58,496.2

         41,142.6

         46,164.6

         20,242.2

       166,045.6

Hlth, Hsptls & Human Srvcs

       845,341.8

       177,783.0

       206,528.6

    2,288,614.5

    3,518,267.9

Public Safety

       276,858.3

         19,191.4

         12,509.0

         26,276.0

       334,834.7

Transportation

           -                      

       332,047.4 

            -

       303,267.8

       635,315.2

Other Education

         20,183.0

         27,081.1

           2,507.5

         29,519.7

         79,291.3

Higher Education

       615,634.3

       866,059.3

         34,582.5

       450,703.3

    1,966,979.4

Public School Support

    1,857,571.1

           2,000.0

           -

       300,000.0

    2,159,571.1

Total

    3,988,743.5

    1,739,096.7

       847,046.3

    3,447,285.0

  10,022,171.5

     Recurring:

 

 

 

 

 

     SECTIONS 5, 6, 7 and 8

 

 

 

 

 

Special

         10,550.0

           1,752.3

 

 

         12,302.3

Supplemental & Deficiency

         13,569.1

           9,170.6

 

       148,346.6

       171,086.3

Compensation

         18,158.2

           

 

 

         18,158.2

Total Recurring

         42,277.3

         10,922.9

                   -  

       148,346.6   

       201,546.8

Nonrecurring:

 

 

 

 

 

SECTIONS 5, 6, 7 and 8

 

 

 

 

 

Special

              500.0

           2,477.4

 

 

           2,977.4

Supplemental & Deficiency

         25,640.0

           1,998.2

 

         72,615.3

       100,253.5

Data Processing

         

           7,300.0

 

         37,158.8

         44,458.8

Total Nonrecurring

         26,140.0

         11,775.6

                   -  

       109,774.1   

       147,689.7

 

Unless otherwise indicated, appropriations from the general fund revert to the general fund at the end of FY04.  Exceptions included higher education institutions and the State Department of Public Education.

 

Finally, the bill includes the LFC recommendation for use of the Tobacco Settlement Program Fund.  The committee recommends legislation that will distribute revenue now paid into the Tobacco Settlement Permanent Fund to the Tobacco Settlement Program Fund for a period of two years.  The committee recommends $21.4 million of the FY04 Tobacco Settlement Program Fund revenue (representing the amount ordinarily earmarked to the tobacco settlement permanent fund) be appropriated to temporarily supplant general fund appropriations to the Human Services Department for use in the Medicaid program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE APPROPRIATIONS

(Dollars in Thousands)

Department of Health:

Tobacco cessation and prevention

     6,000.0

Diabetes prevention and control

     1,000.0

HIV/AIDS services

        470.0

Total Department of Health

     7,470.0

Human Services Department:

       Various Medicaid programs                                              30,423.1

Veterans Service Commission:

Assisted living program for veterans with lung disease

        600.0

University of New Mexico:

Health Sciences Center programs

     4,400.0

GRAND TOTAL

   42,893.1


DUPLICATION/CONFLICT

 

House Bill 7 duplicates Senate Bill 2 and conflicts with House Bill 2.  House Bill 2 represents the Executive’s recommendations for funding operations of state government.

 

CTF/prr

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