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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 86(R)

House Bill 1

House Author:  Zerwas

Effective:  9-1-19

Senate Sponsor:  Nelson

            House Bill 1, the General Appropriations Act, appropriates approximately $250.7 billion for the 2020-2021 state fiscal biennium, of which $126 billion is for state fiscal year 2020 and $124.7 billion is for state fiscal year 2021. Those amounts include all funding sources except interagency contracts. Of the total amount appropriated, more than $125 billion, or roughly 50 percent, is derived from general revenue, both dedicated and nondedicated. Another $86.4 billion, or 34.5 percent, represents federal funding, while the remaining $39.2 billion, or 15.6 percent, comes from other funds such as the state highway fund and the economic stabilization fund. (Figures and percentages may not add up due to rounding.) The $250.7 billion budgetary total represents an increase of approximately 15.6 percent over the budget approved for the 2018-2019 state fiscal biennium.

Legislative appropriations for major governmental functions and services for the 2020‑2021 biennium compared with appropriations for the preceding biennium are as follows, listed by budgetary article:

·         Article I - General Government receives $7.4 billion, an increase of 19.1 percent;

·         Article II - Health and Human Services receives $84.4 billion, an increase of 6.2 percent;

·         Article III - Agencies of Education receives $83 billion, an increase of 3.2 percent;

·         Article IV - The Judiciary receives $892.3 million, an increase of 8.3 percent;

·         Article V - Public Safety and Criminal Justice receives $16 billion, an increase of 30.3 percent;

·         Article VI - Natural Resources receives $9 billion, an increase of 98.3 percent;

·         Article VII - Business and Economic Development receives $37.1 billion, an increase of 16.4 percent;

·         Article VIII - Regulatory receives $647.4 million, an increase of 2.7 percent;

·         Article IX - General Provisions receives $11.8 billion, an increase of 13,972.3 percent; and

·         Article X - The Legislature receives $392.1 million, an increase of 1.2 percent.

Of the $11.8 billion in appropriations contained in Article IX of the budget, approximately $11.5 billion is for purposes of House Bill 3, which provides for public school finance reform and the compression of school district property tax rates. Additionally, Article IX contains the position classification plan and salary schedule for the 2020-2021 biennium.