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APPROPRIATION AND SPENDING LIMITATION CAP -

                 
CENTENNIAL HIGHWAY FUND

                 
2000 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Martin R. Stephens

                  AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS AND TAX LIMITATIONS; INCLUDING
                  APPROPRIATIONS TO THE CENTENNIAL HIGHWAY FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF
                  CALCULATING APPROPRIATION LIMITS; MAKING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AND
                  PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      63-38c-103, as last amended by Chapters 12 and 270, Laws of Utah 1998
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 63-38c-103 is amended to read:
                       63-38c-103. Definitions.
                      As used in this chapter:
                      (1) (a) "Appropriations" means actual unrestricted capital and operating appropriations
                  from unrestricted General Fund, Uniform School Fund, and Transportation Fund sources as
                  presented in the governor's executive budgets.
                      (b) "Appropriation" includes appropriations that are contingent upon available surpluses
                  in the General Fund, Uniform School Fund, or Transportation Fund.
                      (c) "Appropriation" includes appropriations made to the Centennial Highway Fund from
                  unrestricted General Fund and Transportation Fund revenues.
                      [(c)] (d) "Appropriations" does not mean:
                      (i) debt service expenditures;
                      (ii) emergency expenditures;
                      (iii) expenditures from all other fund or subfund sources presented in the executive budgets;
                      (iv) transfers into, or appropriations made to, the Budgetary Reserve Account established
                  in Section 63-38-2.5 ;


                      (v) monies appropriated to fund the total one-time project costs for the construction of
                  capital developments as defined in Section 63A-5-104 ; or
                      (vi) appropriations made to the Centennial Highway Fund from sources other than the
                  unrestricted General Fund and Transportation Fund revenues created by Section 72-2-118 .
                      (2) "Base year real per capita appropriations" means the result obtained for the state by
                  dividing the fiscal year 1985 actual appropriations of the state less debt monies, less $55 million
                  appropriated for flooding and less $14.2 million appropriated for capital projects in Section 3 of
                  Chapter 265, Laws of Utah 1985 General Session, by:
                      (a) the state's July 1, 1983 population; and
                      (b) the fiscal year 1983 inflation index divided by 100.
                      (3) "Calendar year" means the time period beginning on January 1 of any given year and
                  ending on December 31 of the same year.
                      (4) "Fiscal emergency" means an extraordinary occurrence requiring immediate expenditures
                  and includes the settlement under Chapter 4, Laws of Utah 1988, Fourth Special Session.
                      (5) "Fiscal year" means the time period beginning on July 1 of any given year and ending on
                  June 30 of the subsequent year.
                      (6) "Fiscal year 1985 actual base year appropriations" means fiscal year 1985 actual capital
                  and operations appropriations from general, uniform school, and transportation fund sources, less
                  debt monies, less $55 million appropriated for flooding, and less $14.2 million appropriated for capital
                  projects in Section 3, Chapter 265, Laws of Utah 1985.
                      (7) "Inflation index" means the change in the general price level of goods and services as
                  measured by the Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator of the Bureau of Economic Analysis,
                  U.S. Department of Commerce calculated as provided in Section 63-38c-202 .
                      (8) (a) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" means the appropriations that could be,
                  or could have been, spent in any given year under the limitations of this chapter.
                      (b) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" does not mean actual appropriations spent or
                  actual expenditures.
                      (9) "Most recent fiscal year's inflation index" means the fiscal year inflation index two fiscal

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                  years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and population
                  appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
                      (10) "Most recent fiscal year's personal income" means the fiscal year personal income two
                  fiscal years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable personal income
                  appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
                      (11) "Most recent fiscal year's population" means the fiscal year population two fiscal years
                  previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and population appropriations
                  limit is being computed under this chapter.
                      (12) "Personal income" means the total personal income of the state as calculated by the
                  Office of Planning and Budget according to the procedures and requirements of Section 63-38c-202 .
                      (13) "Population" means the number of residents of the state as of July 1 of each year as
                  calculated by the Office of Planning and Budget according to the procedures and requirements of
                  Section 63-38c-202 .
                      (14) "Revenues" means the revenues of the state from every tax, penalty, receipt, and other
                  monetary exaction and interest connected with it that are recorded as unrestricted revenue of the
                  General Fund, Uniform School Fund, and Transportation Fund, except as specifically exempted by
                  this chapter.
                      (15) "Security" means any bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness, whether
                  or not the bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness is or constitutes an "indebtedness"
                  within the meaning of any provision of the constitution or laws of this state.
                      Section 2. Effective date.
                      This act takes effect on July 1, 2002.

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