Reference is to Printer's Date 6/2/15-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking SECTION 1 and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Part IA of H. 3701 of 2015, the general appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2015-16, is amended by increasing specific general fund appropriations contained therein by amounts provided herein. References in these sections are to sections and subdivisions of those sections in Part IA of H. 3701 of 2015.
I. ADMINISTRATION
A. GENERAL
SPECIAL ITEM:
(1) State-owned Local
Roads $75,000,000
(2) Non-Interstate
Connector
Roads
$75,000,000
III. NON-RECURRING
BONUS PAY
18,425,000 /
Amend the bill further, SECTION 4, by striking Proviso 117.138 and 118.17 and inserting:
/ SECTION 84 - U12-DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
84.19. The Department of Transportation shall distribute the $75,000,000 appropriated in Part 1A, Section 84, for State-Owned local roads to each County Transportation Committee based upon the county's population in comparison to the population of the State. The funds appropriated in this proviso only may be expended for resurfacing and rehabilitation projects on existing state-owned local roads and bridges thereon.
84.20. The Department of Transportation shall distribute the $75,000,000 appropriated in Part 1A, Section 84, for Non-Interstate Connector Roads to each County Transportation Committee pursuant to Section 12-28-2740 of the 1976 Code. County Transportation Committees shall utilize these funds only for resurfacing and rehabilitation projects on existing non-interstate connector roads and bridges theron.
117.138. (GP: $800 Employee Bonus Pay) From the funds appropriated in Part 1A, Section 106, and Part IB, Section 118, Statewide Employee Benefits for Bonus Pay, effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16, 2015, the Department of Administration shall allocate to state agencies $23,500,000 to provide for a one-time lump sum bonus. Each permanent state employee, in a full-time equivalent position, who has been in continuous state service for at least six months prior to July 1, 2015, and who earns less than $100,000 shall receive a $800 one-time lump sum payment. This payment is not a part of the state employee's base salary and is not earnable compensation for purposes of employer or employee contributions to respective retirement systems. This appropriation may be used for payments to employees only in the same ratio as the employee's base salary is paid from appropriated sources and the employing agency shall pay the bonus for federal and other funded full-time equivalent positions employees from federal or other funds available to the agency in the proportion that such funds are the source of the employee's salary. The earnings limitation in Proviso 117.55 does not apply to this bonus.
118.15.
(SR: Interstate Improvement Bond)
There is appropriated from nontax sources $50,000,000
to the Department of Transportation. The Department of
Transportation shall hold the $50,000,000 in a separate and
distinct account until a law has been enacted to authorize the
dedication and transfer of a recurring $50,000,000 of nontax
revenue to the Department of transportation for the purposes of
bonding. Upon enactment of enabling legislation, the Department
of Transportation shall utilize the funds to leverage
approximately $500,000,000 in bonds. From the bond
proceeds: (1)
$300,000,000 must be used for expansion and
improvements to existing mainline interstates and bridges
thereon;
(2)
$100,000,000 must be used for resurfacing and
rehabilitation projects on existing state-owned local roads and
bridges thereon; and
(3)
$100,000,000 must be used for resurfacing and
rehabilitation projects on existing non-interstate connector
roads and bridges thereon.
The department shall submit
all projects proposed to be financed through this provision to
the Joint Bond Review Committee for approval before financing
any proposed project.
118.17.
(SR: Supplemental Nonrecurring Revenue) (A) The
source of revenue appropriated in subsection (B) is nonrecurring
revenue generated from the following source:
(1)
$150,000,000 from Fiscal Year 2014-15
unobligated general fund revenue as certified by the Board of
Economic Advisors.
This revenue is deemed to
have occurred and is available for use in Fiscal Year 2015-16
after September 1, 2015, following the Comptroller
General's close of the state's books on Fiscal
Year 2014-15.
(B)
The State Treasurer shall disburse the following
appropriations by September 30, 2015, for the purposes
stated:
(1)
J02 Department
of Health and Human Services
(a)
CLTC Community Long-Term Care
$5,000,000;
(b)
Coordinated Care
$39,820,000;
(c)
Behavioral Health Services
$5,000,000;
(2)
L04 Department
of Social Services
Child
Support Enforcement Other
Operating Expenses
$2,600,000
(3)
P32 Department
of Commerce
Economic
Development Infrastructure
$70,000,000
(4)
E23 Commission
on Indigent Defense
Defense
of Indigents
$6,080,000
(5)
F30 Statewide
Employee Benefits
Employee
Bonus Pay
$5,075,000
(6)
V04 Debt
Service
Economic
Development Bonds
$16,425,000
Unexpended funds appropriated
pursuant to this subsection may be carried forward to succeeding
fiscal years and expended for the same purposes.
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Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.