AN ACT TO ENACT A BASE BUDGET FOR CERTAIN STATE AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE 2019-2021 FISCAL BIENNIUM. SL 2019-242. Enacted November 6, 2019. Effective July 1, 2019.
Bill Summaries: H%20111 2019-2021 BASE BUDGETS/CERTAIN AGENCIES. (NEW)
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Bill H 111 (2019-2020)Summary date: Nov 13 2019 - View SummaryCourts/Judiciary, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, General Assembly, State Agencies, Community Colleges System Office, UNC System, Department of Administration, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Department of Commerce, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (formerly Dept. of Cultural Resources), Department of Environmental Quality (formerly DENR), Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Information Technology, Department of Insurance, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Military & Veterans Affairs, Department of Public Instruction, Department of Public Safety, Department of Revenue, Department of State Treasurer, Department of Transportation, Office of State Auditor, Office of State Budget and Management, Office of State Controller, Secretary of State, State Board of Elections, State Government, Executive, Local Government, Health and Human Services, Health, Health Care Facilities and Providers, Public Health, Mental Health, Social Services, Military and Veteran's Affairs
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Bill H 111 (2019-2020)Summary date: Oct 30 2019 - View Summary
Senate committee substitute deletes the content of the 2nd edition and now provides the following.
Part I.
Sets forth the schedule of appropriations from the General Fund for the budgets of specified State agencies, departments, and institutions, and other enumerated purposes, for each year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium, with net appropriations totaling $23,900,304,471 for the 2019-20 fiscal year and $23,981,490,408 for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
Reduces the total requirements for the Department of Justice, Legal Services by $3,055,973 in recurring funds for each fiscal year of the biennium.
Repeals Section 5(11) of SL 2019-229, which allocates specified funds to support 65 full-time equivalent positions in the Court Services Section of the Division of Juvenile Justice. Further amends Section 5 of SL 2019-229 to reduce the appropriations set out for the Department of Public Safety (DPS) for the implementation of the Raise the Age legislation from $30,915,431 to $27,023,037 for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and from $43,538,704 to $39,646,310 for the 2020-21 fiscal year.
Subject to SB 61 becoming law, amends Section 1.2 of that act to specify that the appropriations made by that act for the budget of the Community College System for the fiscal biennium are in addition to the appropriations set out in any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to the Community College System. Reduces the Community College System requirements, receipts, and net appropriations set out for the fiscal biennium in SB 61 to include a net appropriation of $28,216,988 rather than $1,196,633,387 for 2019-20 and $25,436,606 rather than $1,193,853,005 for 2020-21.
Repeals Section 1.1(ff) of SL 2019-192, which appropriated nonrecurring funds to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, for the 2019-20 fiscal year to be used to support the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Subject to HB 398 becoming law, amends Section 1.2 of that act to reduce the requirements, receipts, and net appropriations set out for the fiscal biennium in HB 398 for the Department of Information Technology (DIT) to include a net appropriation of $13,759,233 rather than $67,422,458 for 2019-20 and $15,283,879 rather than $68,947,104 for 2020-21.
Subject to SB 683 becoming law, amends Section 5.2 of that act to specify that the appropriations made in that act for the budget of the State Board of Elections (SBE) for the fiscal biennium are in addition to the appropriations set forth in SL 2019-209 for the SBE. Reduces the SBE requirements, receipts, and net appropriations set out for the fiscal biennium in SB 683 to include a net appropriation of $1,156,004 rather than $7,989,301 for 2019-20 and $44,923 rather than $6,878,220 for 2020-21.
Part II.
Sets forth the General Fund availability used in developing the base budget for each year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium.
Details procedures for the transfer of funds to the Savings Reserve, and the treatment of receivable as nontax revenue.
Directs DHHS to deposit from its revenues $165.3 million for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and $130 million for the 2020-21 fiscal year, with the Department of State Treasurer to be accounted for as nontax revenue to represent the return of resources from State-owned and State-operated hospitals used to provide indigent and nonindigent care services. Provides that the return from State-owned and State-operated hospitals to DHHS will be made from nonfederal resources in an amount equal to the amount of the payments from the Division of Health Benefits for uncompensated care. Requires the treatment of any revenue derived from federal programs to be in accordance with specified federal regulations.
Part III.
States that the act's appropriations, and appropriations made by any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, department, or an institution covered under the act, are for maximum amounts necessary for services and purposes of the applicable agency, department, or institution pursuant to the State Budget Act. Requires any savings to revert to the appropriate fund at the end of each fiscal year, except as otherwise provided by law.
Deems the requirements set forth in the act, and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, department, or institution covered by the act, to represent the total amount of funds appropriated to an agency, department, or institution.
Deems state funds appropriated for each year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium up to the specified amounts for all budget codes listed in the Governor's Recommended Budget Support Document, as adjusted in this act; excludes the budget codes for the Community College System, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Information Technology. For the Community College System and the DIT, appropriates amounts up to the amounts for budget codes listed in the Governor's Recommended Budget Support Document, as adjusted, only if the agency's bill containing budget appropriations does not become law (SB 61 for the Community College System; HB 398 for DIT). Provides for overrealized receipts. Restricts expenditures to those legislatively authorized.
Reenacts and incorporates the provisions of GS Chapter 143C, the State Budget Act.
Provides for parameters and application of the biennial budget provided and adjusted by the act.
Specifies that SL 2019-9, SL 2019-15, SL 2019-192, SL 2019-208, SL 2019-209, SL 2019-210, SL 2019-211, SL 2019-221, SL 2019-222, SL 2019-223, and SL 2019-224, and any other enactments during the 2019 Regular Session appropriating funds to an agency, department, or institution covered by the act remain effective except where expressly repealed or amended.
Sets forth limitations and directions that apply, including (1) the limitations and directions on the expenditure of funds for the prior fiscal biennium remain in effect; (2) vacant positions subject to proposed budget reductions in HB 966 cannot be filled; (3) public school employees paid on the teacher salary schedule, the school-based administrator salary schedule, or any other salary schedule established by state law cannot move up on salary schedules or receive automatic step increases until legislatively authorized (this provision is repealed if HB 377, Teacher Step Act, becomes law), and (4) funds cannot be reserved to the Repairs and Renovations Reserve or the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund, and the State Controller cannot transfer funds from the unreserved fund balance to those reserves on June 30 of the prior fiscal year.
Defines the scope of the act to funds appropriated for and activities occurring during the 2019-21 fiscal biennium. Clarifies the effect of the act's headings.
Clarifies that the act and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, department, or an institution covered under the act, collectively supersedes and replaces the specified provisions of the State Budget Act. Provides that the appropriations and authorizations set out in the act remain in effect until HB 966 becomes law, at which point that act governs, and the Director of the Budget adjusts allotments to give effect to HB 966 from July 1 of the fiscal year.
Part IV.
Provides for the act to become effective July 1, 2019.
Changes the act's titles.
Courts/Judiciary, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, General Assembly, State Agencies, Community Colleges System Office, UNC System, Department of Administration, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Department of Commerce, Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (formerly Dept. of Cultural Resources), Department of Environmental Quality (formerly DENR), Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Information Technology, Department of Insurance, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Military & Veterans Affairs, Department of Public Instruction, Department of Public Safety, Department of Revenue, Department of State Treasurer, Department of Transportation, Office of State Auditor, Office of State Budget and Management, Office of State Controller, Secretary of State, State Board of Elections, State Government, Executive, Local Government, Health and Human Services, Health, Health Care Facilities and Providers, Public Health, Mental Health, Social Services, Military and Veteran's Affairs
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Bill H 111 (2019-2020)Summary date: Jul 10 2019 - View Summary
House committee substitute amends the 1st edition by deleting the previous edition and to now provide the following provisions.
I.
Directs that the act's implementation be in conjunction with the procedure for budget continuation under specified state law, with the act's provisions superseding conflicting state law.
II.
Appropriates $50,548,003 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for the 2019-20 fiscal year to fully fund increases in Average Daily Membership and average salary adjustments in public schools.
Requires that the funds appropriated by SL 2018-5 for UNC enrollment adjustments to a reserve account for the 2018-19 fiscal year remain available until the end of the 2019-20 fiscal year to be used for the "buy down" of any financial obligations resulting from the tuition rate under state law incurred by Elizabeth City State University, UNC-Pembroke, and Western Carolina University, or for rapid growth at any of those institutions. Effective June 30, 2019.
Amends GS 116-143.3A, which provides a waiver of the 12-month residency requirement for in-state tuition at institutions of higher learning for certain veterans and other individuals entitled to federal education benefits under specified federal law. Eliminates the separate waiver criteria for individuals entitled to federal educational benefits under specified federal law. Makes conforming changes. Now provides for any veteran, dependent of a veteran, or other individual who qualifies for admission to be charged the in-State tuition rate and applicable mandatory fees for enrollment to the extent required by the specified federal law (the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014), without satisfying the 12-month residency requirement. Modifies and adds to the qualifying criteria, now only requiring that the individual's abode be located in the state, the individual provide the institution a letter of intent to establish residence in the state, and the individual meet the definition of a "covered individual" under the federal law (previously, required to apply and enroll within three years of discharge or release, and qualify for and use, or receive, the specified federal educational benefits). Eliminates the distinct provisions for recipients using transferred Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits while the transferor is on active duty, and recipients of the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship whose parent or spouse died in the line of duty. Adds that the individual applying for the benefit of the statute has the burden of proving entitlement to the benefit. Applies to qualifying veterans and other individuals who are enrolled or who enroll in institutions of higher education for any academic quarter, term, or semester that begins on or after the date the act becomes law.
III.
Appropriates $5,746,172 in recurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Central Management and Support for the 2019-20 fiscal year. Restricts use of the funds for operations and maintenance of the NC Families Accessing Services Through Technology (NC FAST) System. Appropriates DHHS receipts for the 2019-20 fiscal year in the following amounts for the same purposes: $12,767,200 in recurring funds and $2,362,982 in nonrecurring funds.
IV.
Directs the State Controller to transfer $4,763,725 for the 2019-20 fiscal year from funds available in the Medicaid Transformation Reserve in the General Fund to the Medicaid Transformation Fund. Transfers the following amounts from the Medicaid Transformation Fund to the Division of Central Management and Support: $3,705,505 in nonrecurring funds for the 2019-20 fiscal year for three specified purposes related to the NC Fast System, including funding a federally required contract for independent verification and validation of the system and $1,058,220 in nonrecurring funds for the 2019-20 fiscal year for NC Fast System operations and maintenance. Additionally, appropriates DHHS receipts in the amount of $4,813,037 for the 2019-20 fiscal year for the same purposes related to the NC Fast System.
V.
Appropriates $348,558 from the General Fund to DHHS, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, for the 2019-20 fiscal year for the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
VI.
Provides specified amounts that local management entities/managed care organizations must transfer to DHHS, Division of Health Benefits, totaling $18,028,217 in the 2019-20 fiscal year, with the transfer due date and frequency determined by the Division. Authorizes the Division of Health Benefits to reallocate the intergovernmental transfers in the event of LME/MCO realignment. Requires reduction of the transfers if the Division of Health Benefits does not make the additional capitation payment associated with the Medicaid risk reserve to an LME/MCO in any given month, with the aggregate amount to be collected adjusted accordingly.
VII.
Authorizes funds allocated to the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) for Golden L.E.A.F. Inc. for infrastructure to be used for the replacement, improvement, or construction of new infrastructure to support hazard mitigation.
Authorizes funds allocated to the Department of Insurance, Office of State Fire Marshal, for financial assistance to volunteer fire departments to be used to repair damages not covered by insurance policy proceeds.
Sets forth the following timelines for Coastal Area Management Act Emergency General Permits authorized in response to Hurricanes Florence and Michael: (1) all emergency general permits must be issued by October 12, 2019, and (2) all work authorized by the emergency general permits must be completed by October 12, 2020.
Deems eligible for financial assistance set out in Section 5.11 of SL 2018-136 (Hurricane Florence Agricultural Disaster Program of 2018) persons who experienced a verifiable loss of agricultural commodities as a result of excessive rain and flooding that occurred during May 15, 2018, through December 31, 2018, whose farm is located in a county that received a Secretarial Disaster Declaration by the US Secretary of Agriculture, either as a primary county or as a contiguous county, between January 31, 2019, and February 15, 2019. Directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to accept applications from eligible persons for no more than 10 consecutive business days on which the federal government is not partially or fully shut down, beginning on the date the act becomes law. Sunsets the provision on the date the Department has processed all applications validly received during the prescribed period.
VIII.
Appropriates the following amounts from the General Fund for the 2019-20 fiscal year to implement the "Raise the Age" provisions set forth in Section 16D.4 of SL 2017-57, specifically including costs associated with hiring 180 full-time employees: $22,982,123 in recurring funds and $4,040,914 in nonrecurring funds to the Department of Public Safety; and $87,681 in recurring funds to the Office of Indigent Defense Services.
IX.
Transfers $12.5 million in recurring funds from the Collections Assistance Fee Special Fund to the Department of Revenue's Division of Information Technology for the 2019-20 fiscal year to support the Portfolio Warehouse, the Modernized eFile, and tax systems operations and maintenance upgrades.
X.
Appropriates $16.5 million from the General Fund to Western Carolina University for the 2019-20 fiscal year to be used for the steam plant replacement project.
XI.
Appropriates the following amounts for the specified purposes from the Highway Trust Fund to the Department of Transportation: $17,310,000 to be used for the specified principal payment and $11,250,000 for the specified interest payment, in recurring funds for the 2019-20 fiscal year.
XII.
Amends GS 143C-5-4, regarding the procedures that are triggered when a fiscal year begins in which no Current Operations Appropriations Act has become law. Requires that the State's employer contributions rates budgeted for retirement and related benefits for the current fiscal year remain the same as the recurring portion of the rates in effect as of June 30 of the prior fiscal year (was, remain the same as they are on June 30 of the prior fiscal year).
XIII.
Provides that the act is effective July 1, 2019.
Changes the act's titles.
Agriculture, Courts/Judiciary, Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, Public Safety and Emergency Management, State Agencies, UNC System, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Information Technology, Department of Justice, Department of Public Safety, Department of Revenue, Department of Transportation, State Government, Local Government, Health and Human Services, Health, Health Care Facilities and Providers, Mental Health, Military and Veteran's Affairs
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Bill H 111 (2019-2020)Summary date: Feb 19 2019 - View Summary
Blank bill.