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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP ORT DIGEST
HB 3 2017 First Extraordinary Session Henry
Keyword and oneliner of the instrument as it left the House
APPROPRIATIONS/SUPPLEML: Supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations
for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 (Item #1)
Report adopts Senate amendments to:
1. Reduce the decrease in State General Fund (Direct) by $23,718,794.
2. Decrease the amount from Interagency Transfers to be transferred to the State General Fund
(Direct) by $400,000.
3. Decrease the amount from Statutory Dedications to be transferred to the State General Fund
(Direct) by $575,001.
4. Increase the amount from Fees and Self-generated Revenues to be transferred to the State
General Fund (Direct) by ($200,000).
5. Decrease the appropriations out of Fees and Self-generated Revenues by ($750,000).
6. Decrease the amount of reductions from vacancies, excluding higher education, from $17.2
million to $10 million and further provide for such reductions out of Fees and Self-generated
Revenues and Statutory Dedications. Additionally direct the commissioner of administration
to reduce appropriations if savings cannot be realized from vacancies.
Report rejects Senate amendments which would have:
1. Reduced appropriations out of the Marketing Fund and the Artificial Reef Development
Fund.
2. Directed the attorney general to transfer $2,000,000 from the Attorney General Consumer
Support Escrow Account to the state treasurer for deposit into the state general fund. Report amends the bill to:
1. Decrease the reduction for the Medical Vendor Payments Program.
2. Decrease the reductions to certain human services authorities and districts.
3. Increase the reduction from vacancies.
4. Changes the reduction from the House of Representatives to the Legislature.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Increase (decrease) appropriations for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 as follows:
State General Fund (Direct) by ($149,079,062).
Statutory Dedications by ($12,642,077) to be transferred to the State General Fund (Direct).
Fees and Self-generated Revenues by ($10,828,575) to be transferred to the State General Fund
(Direct).
Directs the commissioner of administration to reduce the appropriations contained in Act 17 of the
2016 R.S. out of the State General Fund (Direct), Fees and Self-generated Revenues and Statutory
Dedications by ($11,900,000) for vacancies in state government excluding higher education.
Additionally, if such savings cannot be realized from vacancies, the commissioner of administration
is authorized and directed to reduce appropriations.
Directs the legislative auditor to remit $2,000,000 from the Legislative Auditor Ancillary Fund to
be transferred to the state general fund.
Additional increase (decrease) in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2016-2017 as follows:
Statutory Dedications by $58,272,501; Fees and Self-generated Revenues by $39,375,272;
Interagency Transfers by $1,585,468; and Federal Funds by ($22,210,104).
Effective upon signature of governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.