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APPROPRIATION LIMIT AMENDMENTS -

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FIRE SUPPRESSION

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2008 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Ben C. Ferry

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Senate Sponsor: Dennis E. Stowell

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             8      LONG TITLE
             9      General Description:
             10          This bill exempts certain supplemental appropriations for fire suppression expenses from
             11      the State Appropriations and Tax Limitation Act.
             12      Highlighted Provisions:
             13          This bill:
             14          .    exempts certain supplemental appropriations made to the Division of Forestry, Fire,
             15      and State Lands to provide monies for wildland fire control expenses from the State
             16      Appropriations and Tax Limitation Act.
             17      Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
             18          None
             19      Other Special Clauses:
             20          None
             21      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             22      AMENDS:
             23          63-38c-103, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 122, 206, and 328
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             25      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             26          Section 1. Section 63-38c-103 is amended to read:
             27           63-38c-103. Definitions.
             28          As used in this chapter:
             29          (1) (a) "Appropriations" means actual unrestricted capital and operating appropriations


             30      from unrestricted General Fund sources and from non-Uniform School Fund income tax
             31      revenues as presented in the governor's executive budgets.
             32          (b) "Appropriations" includes appropriations that are contingent upon available
             33      surpluses in the General Fund.
             34          (c) "Appropriations" does not mean:
             35          (i) debt service expenditures;
             36          (ii) emergency expenditures;
             37          (iii) expenditures from all other fund or subfund sources presented in the executive
             38      budgets;
             39          (iv) transfers or appropriations from the Education Fund to the Uniform School Fund;
             40          (v) transfers into, or appropriations made to, the General Fund Budget Reserve
             41      Account established in Section 63-38-2.5 ;
             42          (vi) transfers into, or appropriations made to, the Education Budget Reserve Account
             43      established in Section 63-38-2.6 ;
             44          (vii) transfers in accordance with Section 63-38-2.7 into, or appropriations made to the
             45      State Disaster Recovery Restricted Account created in Section 53-2-403 ;
             46          (viii) monies appropriated to fund the total one-time project costs for the construction
             47      of capital developments as defined in Section 63A-5-104 ;
             48          (ix) transfers or deposits into or appropriations made to the Centennial Highway Fund
             49      Restricted Account created by Section 72-2-118 ;
             50          (x) transfers or deposits into or appropriations made to the Transportation Investment
             51      Fund of 2005 created by Section 72-2-124 ; [or]
             52          (xi) transfers or deposits into or appropriations made to:
             53          (A) the Department of Transportation from any source; or
             54          (B) any transportation-related account or fund from any source[.]; or
             55          (xii) supplemental appropriations from the General Fund to the Division of Forestry,
             56      Fire, and State Lands to provide monies for wildland fire control expenses incurred during the
             57      current or previous fire years.


             58          (2) "Base year real per capita appropriations" means the result obtained for the state by
             59      dividing the fiscal year 1985 actual appropriations of the state less debt monies by:
             60          (a) the state's July 1, 1983 population; and
             61          (b) the fiscal year 1983 inflation index divided by 100.
             62          (3) "Calendar year" means the time period beginning on January 1 of any given year and
             63      ending on December 31 of the same year.
             64          (4) "Fiscal emergency" means an extraordinary occurrence requiring immediate
             65      expenditures and includes the settlement under Chapter 4, Laws of Utah 1988, Fourth Special
             66      Session.
             67          (5) "Fiscal year" means the time period beginning on July 1 of any given year and
             68      ending on June 30 of the subsequent year.
             69          (6) "Fiscal year 1985 actual base year appropriations" means fiscal year 1985 actual
             70      capital and operations appropriations from General Fund and non-Uniform School Fund income
             71      tax revenue sources, less debt monies.
             72          (7) "Inflation index" means the change in the general price level of goods and services
             73      as measured by the Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator of the Bureau of Economic
             74      Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce calculated as provided in Section 63-38c-202 .
             75          (8) (a) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" means the appropriations that could
             76      be, or could have been, spent in any given year under the limitations of this chapter.
             77          (b) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" does not mean actual appropriations
             78      spent or actual expenditures.
             79          (9) "Most recent fiscal year's inflation index" means the fiscal year inflation index two
             80      fiscal years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and population
             81      appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
             82          (10) "Most recent fiscal year's population" means the fiscal year population two fiscal
             83      years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and population
             84      appropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
             85          (11) "Population" means the number of residents of the state as of July 1 of each year as


             86      calculated by the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget according to the procedures and
             87      requirements of Section 63-38c-202 .
             88          (12) "Revenues" means the revenues of the state from every tax, penalty, receipt, and
             89      other monetary exaction and interest connected with it that are recorded as unrestricted revenue
             90      of the General Fund and from non-Uniform School Fund income tax revenues, except as
             91      specifically exempted by this chapter.
             92          (13) "Security" means any bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness,
             93      whether or not the bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness is or constitutes an
             94      "indebtedness" within the meaning of any provision of the constitution or laws of this state.


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