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Staff outlines program maintenance bills, sales-tax distribution and risks to general fund growth
Summary
Budget staff described the structure and timing of program maintenance appropriation bills, explained sales tax distribution formulas and warned that more of the sales tax is now diverted to statutory uses, reducing the share that flows to the general fund during downturns.
Keith Bybee, Division Manager for Budget Policy Analysis, briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on how program maintenance appropriations are organized and how sales tax distributions affect general fund revenues.
Bybee said program maintenance is organized into 10 functional appropriation bills covering major areas of state government; maintenance bills include the base budget plus adjustments between benchmark 4 and benchmark 5 (personnel benefit cost adjustments, contract inflation, statewide cost allocation, and CEC). He said the legislative intent this year is to include all CEC adjustments in program maintenance bills to standardize practice.
Bybee described why several functional groupings were split out: the Legislative Branch and statewide elected officials are treated separately from general government agencies; the Judicial Branch is separated from Public Safety for organizational clarity; and public school support and higher-education agencies under the State Board of Education are kept distinct.
He explained that other items…
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