Internal Service Funds (ISF) employ business practices to provide a service or product for other state and governmental agencies. Typical services include motor pools, computer centers, mail processing, facility management, or other large functions that can be centrally coordinated. They are set up to take advantage of economies of scale, to avoid duplication of efforts, and to provide an accounting mechanism to adequately identify costs of certain governmental services.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $168,402,700 from all sources for ISF - Administrative Services. This is a 4 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $150,000 in new approprations from the General/Education Funds.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
ISFs operated by the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) provide consolidated services to all state agencies. DAS operates several ISFs that are funded by rates charged to state agencies and others:
- Division of Finance
- Division of Purchasing and General Services
- Division of Fleet Operations
- Risk Management
- Division of Facilities Construction and Management
The Legislature removed the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS) from DAS during the 2005 General Session and placed it in the new Department of Technology Services (H.B. 109). The change became effective on July 1, 2006 (FY 2007).
In the 2006 General Session, the Legislature changed the Office of State Debt Collection from an internal service fund to a restricted special revenue fund by passing S.B. 214, Office of State Debt Collection Amendments.
n the 2010 General Session the Legislature passed legislation (H.B. 402, Department of Administrative Services Modifications) allowing the department to change the operation of most of its divisions from appropriated to an internal service fund.
Dedicated Credits -- Intragovernmental Revenue come from charges to customer agencies. Premiums are collected by Risk Management for its insurance programs. Restricted revenue comes from the Workers Compensation Fund administered by the Division of Risk Management.
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.