Committee: Ways and Means General Fund Sponsor: Albritton
Analyst: John Friedenreich Date: 03/09/2022
FISCAL NOTE
Senate Bill 108 as substituted and reported by the Committee on Ways and Means General Fund makes supplemental appropriations of $119,225,398 from the State General Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, in the following amounts to the following entities:
(a) $362,611 to the Legislature, of which $100,000 is for reapportionment litigation expenses and $262,611 for special session expenses.
(b) $30 million to the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority (ACIFA) Program within Debt Service, conditioned on the requirement that such debt service is required in Fiscal Year 2022. Any amount not needed for such debt service is appropriated to the Alabama Trust Fund Board of Trustees for repayment under the People's Trust Act.
(c) $1.5 million to the District Attorneys.
(d) $2,995,111 to the Bureau of Pardons and Paroles.
(e) $3.5 million to the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, of which $500,000 is for emergency sewer repairs in the City of Brewton, $500,000 for an economic development project in Crenshaw County, $2 million for renovations at Anniston Airport, and $500,000 for a survey and evaluation of dams in Alabama.
(f) $500,000 to the Educational Television Commission for one-time capital outlay expenses.
(g) $5.3 million to the Department of Forensic Sciences for a forensic laboratory in Dothan.
(h) $5,587,531 to the Department of Human Resources for the new SNAP and TANF system.
(i) $6 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs for construction of new veterans' home.
(j) $9.5 million to the Department of Agriculture and Industries, of which, $7 million is to construct a new laboratory facility, and $2.5 million for rural utility infrastructure.
(k) $7,043,500 to the State Law Enforcement Agency, of which $1 million is to repair hurricane damage to the Orange Beach Marine Patrol facility and $6,043,500 for radio and communications improvements.
(l) $1 million to the Department of Senior Services to open an elder abuse shelter.
(m) $3.5 million to the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission.
(n) $700,000 to the Department of Mental Health for a crisis residential unit in Region 1.
(o) $3 million to the Alabama Department of Tourism, of which $2.7 million is for the World Games, and $300,000 for the Birmingham Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
(p) $7,377,000 to the Department of Environmental Management, of which $1.5 million is for the Coastal Program building at the Mobile Field Office, and $5,877,000 is for state matching funds required for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds.
(q) $3.5 million to the Alabama Forestry Commission, of which $1.5 million to procure and maintain vehicles and equipment used for preventing and fighting forest fires, and $2 million for an operational training center.
(r) $1.5 million to the Alabama Historical Commission, of which $500,000 is for an Alabama ecotourism study, $500,000 for the Alabama Veterans Museum & Archives, and $500,000 for Fort Morgan.
(s) $24,696,745 to the General Fund Budget Reserve Fund.
(t) $162,900 to the Department of Public Health for Kick Covid.
(u) $1.5 million to the Office of Prosecution Services.
This bill also makes a supplemental appropriation from the following funds to the following Boards for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022: (1) $222,465 from the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling Fund to the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling; and (2) $30,000 from the Alabama Board of Examiners of Assisted Living Administrators Fund to the Alabama Board of Examiners of Assisted Living Administrators.
Finally, this bill amends the FY 2022 General Funds Appropriations Act (Act 2021-479) to provide further for the appropriation to the Department of Commerce.
Steve Clouse, Chair Ways and Means General Fund