house bill NO. 4

INTRODUCED BY D. Bartel

By Request of the Office of Budget and Program Planning

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT APPROPRIATING MONEY THAT WOULD USUALLY BE APPROPRIATED BY BUDGET AMENDMENT TO VARIOUS STATE AGENCIES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2021; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS CONTINUE INTO STATE AND FEDERAL FISCAL YEARS 2022 AND 2023; 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 expenditures for the years for which the appropriations are made. The unspent balance of an appropriation reverts to the fund from which it was appropriated upon conclusion of the final fiscal year for which its expenditures are authorized by [sections 1 and 2].

 

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

Agency and Program

Judiciary

            Supreme Court Operations

Supporting Foster Youth and Families Through

the Pandemic                                                                FY 2021            $100,469           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the district court workload assessment is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the state court improvement data program and for the state court improvement training program and for supporting foster youth and families through the pandemic is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

            District Court Operations

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 8th judicial veterans treatment court is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Missoula veterans court expansion and enhancement grant and the Montana supreme court fiscal year 2018 adult drug court implementation is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the adult drug court program and for the Yellowstone County family drug court expansion and for the 13th judicial district veterans treatment court expansion is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Secretary of State

            Business and Government Services

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the help America vote grant and for the election security grants is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Office of Public Instruction

            State Level Activities

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for an innovative partnership to prepare rural school-based mental health services providers and for the troops-to-teachers program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the project aware grant and for the school violence prevention grant program and for the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

            Local Education Activities

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the project aware grant and for the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Department of Justice

            Legal Services Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for prescription drug prevention is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Motor Vehicle Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the driver's license program implementation grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Highway Patrol

High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program                FY 2021            $62,780             Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the peer support project and for the criminal interdiction program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the anti-methamphetamine program and for the high intensity drug trafficking areas program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

            Division of Criminal Investigations

Criminal Interdiction Program                                         FY 2021            $42,750             Federal

High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program                FY 2021            $82,500             Federal

Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force             FY 2021            $13,500             Federal

Drug Enforcement Administration Grants                        FY 2021            $96,860             Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for drug enforcement administration grants and for the criminal interdiction program and for the organized crime drug enforcement task force is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the cooperative disability investigations unit is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the anti-methamphetamine program and for the high intensity drug trafficking areas program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

            Forensic Science Division

National Center on Forensics Award                               FY 2021            $85,346             Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the fiscal year 2019 DNA capacity enhancement and backlog reduction program and for the fiscal year 2018 DNA capacity enhancement and backlog reduction program and for the national center on forensics award is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the fiscal year 2020 DNA backlog reduction program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Public Service Commission

            Public Service Regulation Program

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the underground natural gas storage grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

Montana Arts Council

            Promotion of the Arts

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the national endowment of the arts strategic plan is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the supplemental national endowment of the arts strategic plan is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

Montana State Library

            Statewide Library Resources

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for framing the future advanced strategic planning for small and rural libraries and for digital mapping of wetlands is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Montana Historical Society

            Administration Program

            Merchandise Authority                                               FY 2021            $32,000             Proprietary

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the historic preservation grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

            Research Center

            Newspaper Repository Authority                              FY 2021            $40,000            Proprietary

            Board Programming Grant                                 FY 2021            $11,996             Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for green paradise: the story of a camping trip and for the board programming grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for upgrades to the mechanical system is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

            Publications

            Publications Authority                                               FY 2021            $40,000            Proprietary

            Historic Preservation Program

            Historic State Preservation Office

            Authority                                                        FY 2021            $20,000             Proprietary

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for documenting and sharing Montana's statewide African American heritage is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the historic preservation grant programs is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks

            Fisheries Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Painted Rocks reservoir is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Enforcement Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for travel plan monitoring is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Wildlife Division

            Pronghorn Movement and Population

            Ecology                                                             FY 2021            $100,000           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the endangered wildlife program and for the migratory song birds grazing study and for cooperative weed management and for wildlife disease surveillance and for the working grassland initiative and the fisher study and for the dusky grouse monitory study and for the Blackfoot-Clearwater elk study and the 2018 legacy administration grant and for the wildlife restoration grant program and for acoustic monitoring to assess impacts of white-nose syndrome is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the grizzly bear trend survey and for the golden eagle survey and the 2020 legacy administration grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for game bird hunting access and for assessing habitat conservation, enhancement, and restoration impacts is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for pronghorn movement and population ecology and for ungulate movements and spatial ecology and for implementation of prairie pothole joint venture activities and for the elk recreation study and for elk habitat management and for the wood bottom habitat management plan and for the sage grouse grazing study and for the dusky grouse monitoring study is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Parks Division

            Geological Survey of Headwaters

            State Park                                                       FY 2021            $6,800              Federal

            Council Grove Sign                                           FY 2021            $5,000              Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Smith River corridor management and for the geological survey of Headwaters State Park is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the council grove sign is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Capital Outlay

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the lost trail legacy project and wetland enhancement in Phillips County is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Blackfoot community conservation area wildlife habitat improvement project is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the upper Ruby wildlife habitat improvement project and for the North Hills rattlesnake wildlife habitat improvement project is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Communication and Education Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for aquatic invasive species prevention and education is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Administration

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for wildlife surveys on the Flathead Indian Reservation is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Department of Environmental Quality

            Water Quality Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for lead testing in schools and childcare programs is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for improving water quality and for the 2017 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2018 nonpoint source project grant and for the section 106 monitoring initiative grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for protecting unimpaired water and for the 2019 and 2020 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Waste Management and Remediation Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the abandoned mine lands reclamation program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

            Air, Energy, and Mining Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Zortman/Landusky water treatment and reclamation and for air monitoring and for pollution prevention and resource efficiency is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the coal application program manager is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

Department of Transportation

            Highway and Engineering

            Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation                      FY 2021            $30,577,957      Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2018 federal-aid highway program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2019 federal-aid highway program and for the 2020 federal-aid highway program and for bridge and highway reconstruction and for the technology and innovation development program and for bridge replacement and rehabilitation is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Motor Carrier Services Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for implementing the 2020 high priority grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Aeronautics Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Yellowstone airport improvement program and operations grant and the Lincoln airport improvement program and operations grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Rail, Transit, and Planning

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the bus facility award is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the coronavirus rural program award is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Department of Livestock

            Animal Health Division

Animal Disease Traceability                                        FY 2021            $34,804            Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for captive bolt euthanasia training is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

Department of Natural Resources and Conservation

            Conservation and Resource Development Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the drinking water state revolving fund capitalization grant and for the water pollution control capitalization grant and for assessing and mitigating stormwater impacts in the Flathead basin and for quagga mussel support for the upper Columbia conservation commission is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for characterizing septic leachate pollution in the Flathead basin is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the water pollution control capitalization grant and for the drinking water state revolving capitalization grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority to improve range health is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Water Resources Division

Water Rights Administrative Support Within

the Yellowstone Controlled Groundwater Area                  FY 2021            $23,000            Federal

Drought Adaptation and Response Plan                          FY 2021            $200,000           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for all the 2017 cooperating technical partners awards and for all the 2018 cooperating technical partners awards and for the 2020 aquifer data project is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for all the 2020 cooperating technical partners awards and for all the 2019 cooperating technical partners awards and for water rights administrative support within the Yellowstone controlled groundwater area and for the drought adaptation and response plan is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Forest and Trust Lands

            2019 Hazardous Fuel Reduction                                 FY 2021            $12,000             Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for firesafe Flathead and for bark beetle award and for the 2018 consolidated payments grant and the Northern Rockies coordination center and for Dillon prescribed fire assistance and for shared stewardship and for fuel reduction activities initiated by the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for providing forestry technical assistance and for 2018 hazardous fuel reduction and for Fort Peck recreation area and Sourdough Creek municipal watershed assistance and for the wood products and biomass program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for stewardship of Red Mountain Chessman Flume and for equipment inspectors and for plains dispatch prescribed fire assistance and for the 2019 consolidated payments grant and for western bark beetle forest health and for 2019 hazardous fuel reduction is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 consolidated payments grant and the statewide good neighbor program and for planning and implementation of forest land-related conservation activities and for the good neighbor authority capacity building and the good neighbor agreement for forest restoration services and for forest health western bark beetle program and for 2020 hazardous fuel reduction and for prescribed burning and fuel reduction assistance and for the landscape scale restoration consolidated payments grant and for the 2021 consolidated payments grant and for 2021 hazardous fuel reduction and for the conservation reserve program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Department of Revenue

            Business and Income Taxes Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the federal audit reimbursement is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Department of Agriculture

            Central Management Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the greater sage grouse habitat is authorized to continuing into state fiscal year 2022.

            Agricultural Sciences Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the greater sage grouse habitat is authorized to continuing into state fiscal year 2022.

            Agriculture Development Division

            Agricultural Mediation Grant                        FY 2021            $3,104              Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2019 specialty crop block grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 specialty crop block grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Department of Corrections

            Administrative Support Services

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the coronavirus emergency response is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority to end elder abuse is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the state victim liaison project and for developing high-risk teams to reduce intimate partner violence and homicides and for the delinquency prevention program and for project safe neighborhoods is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Montana Correctional Enterprises

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for connecting adults and minors through positive parenting is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Department of Commerce

            Community Development Division

Community Development Block Grant                             FY 2021            $10,174,175      Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2016 housing trust fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 2017 housing trust fund and for the 2018 housing trust fund and for the community development block grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Housing Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the housing choice voucher supplemental program and for the mainstream administrative fees program and for the moderate rehabilitation program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the 811 project rental assistance demonstration program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Department of Labor and Industry

            Workforce Services Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for employment recovery is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

            Unemployment Insurance Division

            Pandemic Unemployment Fraud

            Investigation                                                     FY 2021            $1,215,000        Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the pandemic unemployment fraud investigation and for the covid-19 special administrative grant funds and for pandemic unemployment assistance operations and for federal pandemic unemployment compensation operations and for federal pandemic emergency unemployment compensation operations is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

            Office of Community Services

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for training and technical assistance is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

Department of Public Health and Human Services

            Human and Community Services

Emergency Solutions Grant Program                         FY 2021            $6,742,481        Federal

Second allocation of the Community Services

Block Grant                                                                   FY 2021            $3,327,308        Federal

Increase to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

Program                                                                       FY 2021            $17,777,309      Federal

Emergency Food Assistance Program                            FY 2021            $236,229           Federal

Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations          FY 2021            $103,685           Federal

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program                    FY 2021            $33,335,403      Federal

Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer

Administrative Funding Grants                                        FY 2021            $763,251           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the emergency food assistance program and for the pandemic electronic benefit transfer administrative funding grants is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the community services block grant and for the emergency solutions grant program and for the food distribution program on Indian reservations is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for housing opportunities for persons with AIDS is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for food distribution on Indian reservations and for the second allocation of the community services block grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Child and Family Services

John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for

Successful Transition to Adulthood                                FY 2021            $2,978,840        Federal

Chafee Education and Training Vouchers Program          FY 2021            $432,971           Federal

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage                          FY 2021            $230,461           Federal

Child Welfare Services                                                           FY 2021            $108,741           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for child welfare services is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the adoption and legal guardian incentive payments program and for the John H. Chafee foster care program for successful transition to adulthood and for the Chafee education and training vouchers program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for promoting safe and stable families is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Public Health and Safety

Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging

Infectious Diseases                                                     FY 2021            $846,000           Federal

Environmental Health Education and Assessment

Program                                                                       FY 2021            $340,124           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and for the public health crisis response and for HIV care formula grants and for the environmental health education and assessment program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 budget amendment authority for covid-19 vaccination planning and implementation is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Quality Assurance Division

Supplemental Nursing Home Survey and

Certification Activities                                                    FY 2021            $205,580           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the supplemental nursing home survey and certification activities is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for nursing home survey and certification activities is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

            Developmental Services Division

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage                          FY 2021            $1,119,327        Federal

            Health Resources Division

Expanding Early Identification and Access to

Perinatal Mental Health                                                  FY 2021            $93,851             Federal

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage                          FY 2021            $2,777,342        Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for expanding early identification and access to perinatal mental health is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

            Senior and Long-Term Care Division

Consolidated Appropriations Act                                     FY 2021            $840,000           Federal

Enhance Adult Protective Services                                 FY 2021            $704,100           Federal

Aging Ombudsman Program                                          FY 2021            $20,000             Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the enhancement of adult protective services system is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Alzheimer's disease support services program and for the community choice partnership is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the adult protective services focusing on opioid misuse and for the consolidated appropriations act and to enhance adult protective services and for the aging ombudsman program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

            Early Childhood and Family Support

Sexual Risk Avoidance Education                                  FY 2021            $159,264           Federal

Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program                FY 2021            $508,329           Federal

Maternal Health Innovation Program                               FY 2021            $2,253,794        Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the pediatric mental health care access program and for the maternal health innovation program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the maternal, infant, and childhood home visiting program and for sexual risk avoidance education is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the childcare and development block grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Addictive & Mental Disorders

Emergency COVID-19 Project                                        FY 2021            $2,859,649        Federal

Block Grants for Community Mental Health

Services                                                                       FY 2021            $2,531,162        Federal

Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment

Block Grant                                                                   FY 2021           $6,530,972        Federal

Federal Medical Assistance Percentage                          FY 2021            $449,974           Federal

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the zero suicide initiative and for the partnership for success grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the emergency COVID-19 project and for block grants for community mental health services and for the substance abuse prevention and treatment block grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

 

Section 3. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.