2021 Montana Legislature

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INTRODUCED BY D. Bedey

By Request of the Office of Budget and Program Planning

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT APPROPRIATING MONEY TO VARIOUS STATE AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2021; APPROPRIATING FEDERAL FUNDS FOR COVID-19 RELIEF FOR the FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2021; ALLOWING COVID-19 RELIEF APPROPRIATIONS TO CONTINUE INTO the 2023 BIENNIUM; and PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE."

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:

 

Section 1. Time limits. The appropriations contained in [section 2] are intended to provide necessary and ordinary expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. The unspent balance of any appropriation must revert to the appropriate fund.

 

Section 2. Appropriations -- authorizations to spend money. The following money is appropriated, subject to the terms and conditions of [section 1]:

Agency and Program                             Amount                         Fund

Department of Revenue

            Alcoholic Beverage Control Division

                                                            $13,819,000                  Proprietary Fund

Office of Public Instruction

            Local Level Activities                 $4,500,000                    General Fund

 

Section 3. Appropriations -- authorization to spend federal money. (1) There is $292.9 million in federal special revenue funds appropriated to the office of budget and program planning in fiscal year 2021. Appropriation authority is intended to be allocated to the following items. Appropriations are authorized to continue in the 2023 biennium.

Agency                                                 Amount                         Fund

Governor's Office                                  $17 million                    Federal Special Revenue

            [Governor's Education Relief Fund]

Department of Commerce                      $17 million                    Federal Special Revenue

            [Emergency Rental Assistance]

Department of Public Health and Human Services

                                                            $37.8 million                 Federal Special Revenue

            [Vaccine Funding]

                                                            $192.3 million                Federal Special Revenue

            [Testing, Tracing, and Mitigation]

                                                            $28.8 million                 Federal Special Revenue

            [Child Care and Development Block Grant](2) There is appropriated $650,000 in federal funds, generated from interest income on the Coronavirus Relief Fund, to the office of budget and program planning for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. Funds must be used to provide matching funds for the department of military affairs for funds received from the federal emergency and management agency.

(3) The office of budget and program planning is authorized to reallocate funds among the items listed in subsection (1) based on receipt of actual federal allocations.

(4) The office of budget and program planning shall provide a report to the legislative fiscal analyst containing the actual allocation of appropriation authority contained in this section.

 

Section 4. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.