The State Settlements Agreements line item was created to track settlement payments made by the State separately from other appropriations in the Attorney General's budget.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $0 from all sources for State Settlement Agreements. This is a 100 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $0 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 100 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
Prior to using the State Settlement Agreements line item, settlement payments by the State were included in the Contract Attorneys line item of the Attorney Generals budget. Where settlement payments are pass-through funds to whomever the recipient is, this method of tracking settlement payments created the appearance of a larger operations budget in the Attorney General's office than was actually appropriated.
The $2,995,000 appropriation in FY 2014 was made during the 2013 First Special Session on July 17, 2013. SB1001, "Deep Creek Case Appropriation," of this session appropriated the total, one-time, from the General Fund Budget Reserve Account to pay for the settlement of the Deep Creek Ranch LLC v. Utah State Armory Board case.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.