1 SB108
2 218020-3
3 By Senator Albritton
4 RFD: Finance and Taxation General Fund
5 First Read: 18-JAN-22
Page 0 1 SB108
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4 ENGROSSED
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7 A BILL
8 TO BE ENTITLED
9 AN ACT
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11 To make supplemental appropriations for the fiscal
12 year ending September 30, 2022: from the Alabama Board of
13 Examiners in Counseling Fund to the Alabama Board of Examiners
14 in Counseling in the amount of $222,465; from the Alabama
15 Board of Examiners of Assisted Living Administrators Fund to
16 the Alabama Board of Examiners of Assisted Living
17 Administrators in the amount of $30,000; from the State
18 General Fund to various agencies and entities a total amount
19 of $143,299,887; and to amend Section 2C of Act 2021-479, the
20 General Fund Appropriations Act for the fiscal year ending
21 September 30, 2022, to clarify the intent regarding an
22 appropriation to the Department of Commerce.
23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
24 Section 1. In addition to all other appropriations
25 heretofore or hereafter made, there is hereby appropriated
26 $222,465 from the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling
Page 1 1 Fund to the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling for the
2 fiscal year ending September 30, 2022.
3 Section 2. In addition to all other appropriations
4 heretofore or hereafter made, there is hereby appropriated
5 $30,000 from the Alabama Board of Examiners of Assisted Living
6 Administrators Fund to the Alabama Board of Examiners of
7 Assisted Living Administrators for the fiscal year ending
8 September 30, 2022.
9 Section 3. In addition to all other appropriations
10 heretofore or hereafter made, there is hereby appropriated a
11 total of $143,299,887 from the State General Fund to the
12 following agencies and entities for the purposes specified
13 below for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022:
14 (a) To the Legislature for reapportionment
15 litigation expenses, $100,000.
16 (b) To the Alabama Trust Fund Board of Trustees to
17 be credited as a repayment pursuant to Section 29-10-1, Code
18 of Alabama 1975, $30,000,000.
19 (c) To the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance
20 Authority (ACIFA) Program within Debt Service, $30,000,000.
21 This appropriation to the ACIFA is conditioned upon ACIFA
22 being required to make a debt service payment during fiscal
23 year 2022 on bonds issued pursuant to the authorization
24 granted by Act 2021-546. Any of the above appropriation that
25 is not needed to make a debt service payment during fiscal
26 year 2022 on bonds issued pursuant to the authorization
27 granted by Act 2021-546 is hereby appropriated to the Alabama
Page 2 1 Trust Fund Board of Trustees to be credited as a repayment
2 pursuant to Section 29-10-1, Code of Alabama 1975.
3 (d) To the Bureau of Pardons and Paroles,
4 $2,995,111.
5 (e) To the Department of Economic and Community
6 Affairs, $3,000,000. Of this amount, $500,000 shall be used
7 for an economic development project in Crenshaw County,
8 $2,000,000 shall be used for renovations at Anniston Airport,
9 and $500,000 shall be used for a survey and evaluation of dams
10 in Alabama.
11 (f) To the Educational Television Commission for
12 one-time capital outlay expenses, $500,000.
13 (g) To the Department of Forensic Sciences for a
14 forensic laboratory in Dothan, $5,300,000.
15 (h) To the Department of Human Resources to be used
16 to complete the development of a new system for SNAP and TANF,
17 $5,587,531.
18 (i) To the Department of Veterans Affairs for the
19 construction of the Command Sergeant Major Bennie Adkins State
20 Veterans Home, $6,000,000.
21 (j) To the Department of Agriculture and Industries,
22 $9,500,000. Of this amount, $7,000,000 shall be used to
23 construct a new laboratory facility, and $2,500,000 shall be
24 used for rural utility infrastructure.
25 (k) To the State Law Enforcement Agency, $7,043,500.
26 Of this amount, $1,000,000 shall be used to repair hurricane
27 damage to the Orange Beach Marine Patrol facility and
Page 3 1 $6,043,500 shall be used for radio and communications
2 improvements.
3 (l) To the Department of Senior Services to be used
4 to open an elder abuse shelter, $1,000,000.
5 (m) To the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission,
6 $2,500,000.
7 (n) To the Department of Mental Health for a crisis
8 residential unit for civilly committed individuals in Region
9 1, $700,000.
10 (o) To the Alabama Department of Tourism,
11 $3,000,000. Of this amount, $2,700,000 shall be expended for
12 the World Games, and $300,000 shall be expended for the
13 Birmingham Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
14 (p) To the Department of Environmental Management,
15 $7,377,000. Of this amount, $1,500,000 shall be used for the
16 Coastal Program building at the Mobile Field Office, and
17 $5,877,000 shall be used for state matching funds required for
18 the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds
19 under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.
20 (q) To the Alabama Forestry Commission, $3,500,000.
21 Of this amount, $1,500,000 shall be used to procure and
22 maintain vehicles and equipment used for preventing and
23 fighting forest fires, and $2,000,000 shall be used for an
24 operational training center.
25 (r) To the Alabama Historical Commission for an
26 Alabama ecotourism study, $500,000.
Page 4 1 (s) To the General Fund Budget Reserve Fund to reach
2 the maximum allocation pursuant to Section 29-13-4, Code of
3 Alabama 1975, $24,696,745.
4 Section 4. Section 2C of Act 2021-479, the General
5 Fund Appropriations Act for the fiscal year ending September
6 30, 2022, is hereby amended as follows:
7 "24. Commerce, Department of:
8 (a) Industrial Development Program....
9 Of the above appropriation, $75,000 shall be
10 expended for the Robotics Technology Park. Of the above
11 appropriation, $1,200,000 shall be expended for one-time costs
12 for the acquisition of property for an for economic
13 development project projects by the Washington County
14 Commission and Economic Development Authority. These funds
15 shall not be released until a letter of intent to purchase the
16 property is upon written request provided to the Secretary of
17 Commerce by the Chair of the County Commission and Executive
18 Director of the Economic Development Authority by the County
19 Commission."
20 Section 5. This act shall become effective
21 immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor, or
22 upon its otherwise becoming law.
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3 Senate
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate4
committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund ...5 1.8-JAN-22
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Read for the second time and placed on the calen-7
dar with 1 substitute and.........................8 2.3-FEB-22
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Read for the third time and passed as amended ....10 2.4-FEB-22
Yeas 2711
12 Nays 0
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15 Patrick Harris,
16 Secretary.
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