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INTRODUCED BY _________________________________________________

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:

NEW SECTION. 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].

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

Agency and Program

Judiciary

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 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 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.

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the troops-to-teachers program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

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

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

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

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the anti-methamphetamine program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

Division of Criminal Investigations

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 is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2023.

Forensic Science Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the DNA capacity enhancement and backlog reduction program is authorized to continue into state 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

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

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for green paradise: the story of a camping trip 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.

Historic Preservation Program

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the historic preservation grant program 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

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 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 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 is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Parks Division

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the Smith River corridor management is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2022.

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 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

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 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 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.

Water Resources Division

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 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 is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Forest and Trust Lands

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 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 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 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

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.

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

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 is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2023.

Housing Division

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.

Department of Public Health and Human Services

Human and Community Services

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

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

Child and Family Services

All remaining fiscal year 2021 federal budget amendment authority for the adoption and legal guardian incentive payments program and for promoting safe and stable families is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Public Health and Safety

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 2022.

Quality Assurance Division

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.

Senior and Long-Term Care Division

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 is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2022.

Early Childhood and Family Support

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.

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