HB122 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jim Barton

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

General fund budget, appropriations for ordinary expenses of executive, legislative, and judicial departments

Summary

HB122 is Alabama's FY2012 general fund budget bill that allocates ordinary operating, debt service, and capital outlay appropriations to executive, legislative, and judicial agencies from the General Fund and earmarked funds.

What This Bill Does

It authorizes detailed appropriations for state agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, including funding from the State General Fund, earmarked funds, and federal sources. It reappropriates any unspent FY2011 General Fund balances to the corresponding offices for FY2012, and creates a potentially separate tobacco settlement/litigation appropriation for FY2012 contingent on anticipated receipts. It sets budget rules and contingencies (including limits under the Budget Management Act, salary funding, and interagency and grant transfer requirements), requires reporting on grants and interagency activity, and provides a broad framework for how funds may be redirected or adjusted while remaining within statutory controls. It also establishes specific employee-related provisions (merit pay timing, SEIB health insurance rate) and a Sept. 30, 2011 effective date.

Who It Affects

• State agencies, departments, boards, and commissions (including executive, legislative, and judicial branches) that receive appropriations and must manage and spend those funds for operations, services, debt service, and capital projects.
• Alabama residents and program beneficiaries (such as Medicaid recipients, elderly and disabled, veterans, and other public services users) who rely on funded programs and services provided by these appropriations.

Key Provisions

• Section 3: Notwithstanding other laws, any FY2011 General Fund appropriations that were unexpended and reverted on Sept. 30, 2011 are reappropriated to the same offices for the FY2012 period.
• Section 5: Creates a conditional FY2012 appropriation of tobacco settlement or litigation funds, contingent on receipts and approved by specified legislative leaders and the Governor, to be allocated under defined code sections.
• Section 6: States that appropriations are in lieu of prior allocations, caps expenditures at the amounts provided, and applies Budget Management Act rules unless otherwise noted.
• Section 7: Allows the Governor to transfer surplus funds to cover salary needs if necessary, with constraints on when and how transfers occur.
• Section 8: Allows appropriations to include gifts, grants, or other non-state funds and requires reappropriation for recurring funds, with authority for mutual agreements to defray audit costs by agencies.
• Section 12: Directs agencies to transfer required funds to the State Personnel Department and to pay for services timely, covering interagency costs and payroll-related expenditures.
• Section 16: Fixes the State Employees' Health Insurance Board rate at $765 per month per full-time employee for FY2012, with adjustments as needed to maintain the rate.
• Section 21: Provides that the act becomes effective October 1, 2011.

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Subjects

Appropriations