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H.B. 194

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APPROPRIATION AND SPENDING

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LIMITATION CAP - CENTENNIAL HIGHWAY

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FUND

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2000 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Sponsor: Martin R. Stephens

             7      AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX LIMITATIONS; INCLUDING
             8      APPROPRIATIONS TO AND FROM THE CENTENNIAL HIGHWAY FUND FOR THE
             9      PURPOSE OF CALCULATING APPROPRIATION LIMITS; AND MAKING TECHNICAL
             10      CORRECTIONS.
             11      This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
             12      AMENDS:
             13          63-38c-103, as last amended by Chapters 12 and 270, Laws of Utah 1998
             14      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             15          Section 1. Section 63-38c-103 is amended to read:
             16           63-38c-103. Definitions.
             17          As used in this chapter:
             18          (1) (a) "Appropriations" means actual unrestricted capital and operating appropriations
             19      from unrestricted General Fund, Uniform School Fund, and Transportation Fund sources, and from
             20      the Centennial Highway Fund, as presented in the governor's executive budgets.
             21          (b) "Appropriation" includes appropriations that are contingent upon available surpluses
             22      in the General Fund, Uniform School Fund, or Transportation Fund.
             23          (c) "Appropriations" does not mean:
             24          (i) debt service expenditures;
             25          (ii) emergency expenditures;
             26          (iii) expenditures from all other fund or subfund sources presented in the executive
             27      budgets;


             28          (iv) transfers into, or appropriations made to, the Budgetary Reserve Account established
             29      in Section 63-38-2.5 ; or
             30          (v) monies appropriated to fund the total one-time project costs for the construction of
             31      capital developments as defined in Section 63A-5-104 [; or].
             32          [(vi) appropriations made to the Centennial Highway Fund created by Section 72-2-118 .]
             33          (2) "Base year real per capita appropriations" means the result obtained for the state by
             34      dividing the fiscal year 1985 actual appropriations of the state less debt monies, less $55 million
             35      appropriated for flooding and less $14.2 million appropriated for capital projects in Section 3 of
             36      Chapter 265, Laws of Utah 1985 General Session, by:
             37          (a) the state's July 1, 1983 population; and
             38          (b) the fiscal year 1983 inflation index divided by 100.
             39          (3) "Calendar year" means the time period beginning on January 1 of any given year and
             40      ending on December 31 of the same year.
             41          (4) "Fiscal emergency" means an extraordinary occurrence requiring immediate
             42      expenditures and includes the settlement under Chapter 4, Laws of Utah 1988, Fourth Special
             43      Session.
             44          (5) "Fiscal year" means the time period beginning on July 1 of any given year and ending
             45      on June 30 of the subsequent year.
             46          (6) "Fiscal year 1985 actual base year appropriations" means fiscal year 1985 actual capital
             47      and operations appropriations from general, uniform school, and transportation fund sources, less
             48      debt monies, less $55 million appropriated for flooding, and less $14.2 million appropriated for
             49      capital projects in Section 3, Chapter 265, Laws of Utah 1985.
             50          (7) "Inflation index" means the change in the general price level of goods and services as
             51      measured by the Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator of the Bureau of Economic
             52      Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce calculated as provided in Section 63-38c-202 .
             53          (8) (a) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" means the appropriations that could be,
             54      or could have been, spent in any given year under the limitations of this chapter.
             55          (b) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" does not mean actual appropriations spent
             56      or actual expenditures.
             57          (9) "Most recent fiscal year's inflation index" means the fiscal year inflation index two
             58      fiscal years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and population


             59      appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
             60          (10) "Most recent fiscal year's personal income" means the fiscal year personal income two
             61      fiscal years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable personal income
             62      appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
             63          (11) "Most recent fiscal year's population" means the fiscal year population two fiscal
             64      years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and population
             65      appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
             66          (12) "Personal income" means the total personal income of the state as calculated by the
             67      Office of Planning and Budget according to the procedures and requirements of Section
             68      63-38c-202 .
             69          (13) "Population" means the number of residents of the state as of July 1 of each year as
             70      calculated by the Office of Planning and Budget according to the procedures and requirements of
             71      Section 63-38c-202 .
             72          (14) "Revenues" means the revenues of the state from every tax, penalty, receipt, and other
             73      monetary exaction and interest connected with it that are recorded as unrestricted revenue of the
             74      General Fund, Uniform School Fund, and Transportation Fund, except as specifically exempted
             75      by this chapter.
             76          (15) "Security" means any bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness, whether
             77      or not the bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness is or constitutes an "indebtedness"
             78      within the meaning of any provision of the constitution or laws of this state.




Legislative Review Note
    as of 12-15-99 3:27 PM


A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel


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