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Budget staff outline program-maintenance bills, sales tax distributions and caution on falling general-fund share
Summary
Budget staff described program-maintenance structure, what will be included in maintenance versus enhancement bills, a hypothetical program-maintenance total, and warned that statutory sales-tax distributions have reduced the share that flows to the general fund.
Keith Bybee, division manager for budget policy analysis, briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on the structure of program-maintenance appropriation bills and presented sales tax distribution data showing a shrinking share of gross sales tax moving to the general fund.
Bybee said program-maintenance bills are organized into 10 functional areas (for example, general government, judicial, public safety, public school support, health and human services, natural resources and economic development) and will include the base budget plus adjustments that fall between two budgetary benchmarks: personnel/benefit cost adjustments (including CEC outcomes and health insurance), contract inflation, statewide cost allocation and other maintenance adjustments.
Replacement items, population forecast adjustments (formerly called nondiscretionary), general inflation and…
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