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bill NO. _____________
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 the FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2023; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS CONTINUE INTO STATE AND FEDERAL FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025; 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 on 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
Supreme Court Operations
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the adult drug court and veterans treatment court discretionary grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Governor's Office
Office of Budget and Program Planning
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds for non-entitlement units of local government, for local water and sewer infrastructure grants, for communication projects related to broadband infrastructure, for economic transformation and stabilization grants and workforce development grants, for nursing home and hospital-based swing bed payments and provider rate study, for state capital projects, for state capital projects administrative costs, and for assistance to nonpublic schools is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Secretary of State
Business and Government Services
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Help America Vote Act is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
Office of Public Instruction
State Level Activities
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Local Education Activities
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Department of Justice
Legal Services Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescription drug prevention is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Montana Highway Patrol
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for high intensity drug trafficking areas is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Division of Criminal Investigations
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for high intensity drug trafficking areas is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the cooperative disability investigations unit and for the support for the Adam Walsh Act implementation grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Board of Crime Control
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the enhanced training and services to end abuse in later life program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for delinquency prevention programs is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Montana Arts Council
Promotion of the Arts
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the promotion of the arts partnership agreements is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Montana State Library
Statewide Library Resources
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for implementing the post-delisting monitoring plan for Howellia aquatilis is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the citizen botany pilot study, for the citizen botany program, for the Montana natural heritage program, for the North American bat monitoring program, for creating improved conservation planning through development, archiving, and distribution of geographic information systems in the state, for managing current and comprehensive biodiversity information and for species surveys, for the Custer Gallatin national forest raptor survey and monitoring, for the state library supplemental award, and for species surveys and monitoring is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Montana Historical Society
Administration Program
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for documenting Montana's Chinese American historic sites is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for a new Montana heritage center is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
Historic Preservation Program
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for documenting Montana's Chinese American historic sites is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for data sharing is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
Enforcement Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for Jefferson division travel plan monitoring is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Wildlife Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Madison valley pronghorn movements study, for expanding walk-in game bird hunting access, for the forest legacy program administration funding, for pronghorn movement and population ecology, for ungulate movements and spatial ecology, and for the elk recreation study is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for studying the effects of grazing management on invertebrates, songbirds, and sage grouse is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the upper Yellowstone pronghorn movement and population ecology, for implementation of prairie pothole joint venture activities, for elk habitat management phase one, and for elk habitat management is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Wood Bottom habitat enhancement management plan, for grizzly bear management assistance, for cooperative weed management, for evaluating habitat carnivore abundance and elk vital rates in Pilgrim Creek, and for habitat conservation leases is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Parks and Outdoor Recreation Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Council Grove sign is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Smith River corridor management is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Capital Outlay
All remaining fiscal year 2023 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 state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Chief Plenty Coups state park and national landmark preservation is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for preliminary work to improve winter habitat for arctic grayling in upper Red Rock Lake is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for habitat conservation leases is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Communication and Education Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for aquatic invasive species prevention and education is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Administration
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for wildlife surveys on the Flathead Indian reservation is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Department of Environmental Quality
Water Quality Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Clean Water Act section 106 grant and for the 2019 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the section 106 monitoring initiative grant, for the 2021 nonpoint source project grant, for the 2022 drinking water state revolving fund supplemental grant, and for the 2023 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Air, Energy, and Mining Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for a plan to enhance ambient monitoring of pollutants is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Department of Transportation
Highway and Engineering Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 federal-aid highway program obligation and for the 2021 apportionment of highway infrastructure program funds is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 federal-aid highway program obligation and for the 2022 federal-aid highway program obligation is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Motor Carrier Services Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 high priority grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2022 high priority grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Aeronautics Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Yellowstone airport CARES Act grant and for the Lincoln airport CARES Act grant are authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Rail, Transit, and Planning Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for CARES Act federal transit administration funding is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
Conservation and Resource Development Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the assistance for small and disadvantaged communities drinking water grant program and for the emergency watershed protection program is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for quagga mussel prevention support for the upper Columbia conservation commission and for the 2021 water pollution control capitalization grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for improving range health and providing learning opportunities for college interns is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Water Resources Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 cooperative technical partners award is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 cooperating technical partners program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Forest and Trust Lands
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescribed fire assistance for the Flathead national forest, for the 2019 consolidated payments grant, for forest health western bark beetle assistance, for 2019 hazardous fuel reduction, for the conservation reserve program sign-up, and for 2020 shared stewardship assistance is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescribed burning and fuel reduction assistance for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forest, for the statewide good neighbor program, for planning and implementation of forest land-related conservation activities, for the urban forest equity initiative, for the fire adapted Montana learning network, and for the emergency fire restoration program for Musselshell and Gallatin Counties is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescribed burning and hazardous fuels reduction assistance for Custer Gallatin national forest, for the 2020 consolidated payments grant, and for 2020 hazardous fuels reduction is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 consolidated forestry program grant, for 2021 hazardous fuels reduction, for the 2022 consolidated forestry program grant, for good neighbor forest restoration services, for the good neighbor agreement for the Flathead national forest, for Kootenai complex restoration projects, for the good neighbor agreement for east side forests restoration, for restoration activities in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forest, for restoration activities in the Helena-Lewis and Clark national forest, for hazardous fuels reduction in the northern region and the joint chiefs' connecting fuels treatments in the Salish Mountains and Whitefish Range project, and for the good neighbor authority capacity building is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Long-Range Building
University System
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for state and local water and sewer infrastructure grants is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Department of Agriculture
Central Management Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for local food purchase assistance is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 specialty crop block grant program and for the cooperative invasive plant cost share program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Agricultural Sciences Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the performance partnership grants is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the cooperative invasive plant cost share program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Agriculture Development Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for local food purchase assistance and for the 2021 specialty crop block grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 specialty crop block grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Department of Corrections
Public Safety
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the rural education achievement program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Department of Commerce
Business Montana
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for creating and expanding export opportunities for Montana small businesses is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the state small business credit initiative is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Brand Montana
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act state travel, tourism, and outdoor recreation grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Community Montana
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2017 housing trust fund grant agreement is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
Housing Montana
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act HOME investment partnerships program, for the American Rescue Plan Act emergency rental assistance program, for the project rental assistance demonstration grant, for the 2018 housing trust fund grant agreement, for the community development block grant, and for the homeowner assistance fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Director's Office
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act statewide planning awards is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Department of Military Affairs
Disaster and Emergency Services Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the homeland security grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Department of Public Health and Human Services
Disability Employment and Transitions Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for expanding the public health workforce within the disability network is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Human and Community Services Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for expanding food distribution to rural and underserved populations is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the supplemental nutrition assistance program process and technology improvement grants is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for infrastructure investment and for the food stamp performance bonus is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Child and Family Services Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for adoption and legal guardianship incentive payments is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for family violence prevention and services is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for promoting safe and stable families and for family violence prevention and sexual assault and rape crisis services and support is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Director's Office
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for home and community-based services is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
Public Health and Safety Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for immunization cooperative agreements, for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for infectious diseases for enhancing detection expansion, for activities to support state, tribal, and territorial health department response to public health and health care crises, for additional immunization cooperative agreements, for immunization and vaccines for children, for covid-19 vaccination planning and implementation, and for evidence-based falls prevention programs is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for infectious diseases, and for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for infectious diseases data modernization is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for substance abuse and mental health services projects of regional and national significance is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for block grants for prevention and treatment of substance abuse, for block grants for community mental health services, and for block grant excess is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Senior and Long-Term Care Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act for congregate meals award, for the American Rescue Plan Act for supportive services award, for the American Rescue Plan Act for home-delivered meals award, for the American Rescue Plan Act for preventive health award, for the American Rescue Plan Act for family caregivers, for the American Rescue Plan Act for ombudsman program award, for the state health insurance assistance program, for expanding the public health workforce within the aging network for states, and for the medicare enrollment assistance program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the long-term care ombudsman program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
Early Childhood and Family Support Division
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for child nutrition program training and technical assistance is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for child abuse prevention is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
NEW SECTION. Section 3. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.