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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Forty-eighth Legislature, First Regular Session

 

FINAL AMENDED/CORRECTED

FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2781

 

general appropriations; 2007-2008

(NOW: general appropriations; 2007-2008; 2008-2009)

 

Purpose

 

            Makes state General Fund and other fund appropriations for FY 2007-2008 and FY 2008-2009 for the operation of state government.

 

Provisions

 

1.      Bulleted items listed under each agency are new or modified footnotes included in the feed bill. All agencies were funded at their 2006-2007 funding levels with the following exceptions:

 

Operating and Spending Changes

Fund Source

Comments

Senate FY 2007-2008 Changes above FY 2006-2007

 

Arizona State Board of Accountancy

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$2,100

Consumer Protection

OF

 

$10,000

Out of State Travel

OF

 

($10,000)

 

Arizona State Board of Acupuncture Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$600

Joint Office Costs/Clerical Support

OF

 

$9,300

Salary Increase

OF

 

$8,700

 

Arizona Department of Administration

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($47,000)

AZNET Lease Decrease

GF

 

($42,200)

Employee Wellness Program

GF

 

($500,000)

Lease Purchase

GF

 

$1,959,000

Utilities

GF

 

$625,700

Accountant Pay Raise

GF

 

$370,000

 

Additional Operating Costs

GF

 

$125,000

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$19,200

HRIS COP Debt Services Increase

OF

 

$162,100

Personnel Division (Require Pro Rata Increase)

OF

 

$744,500

Employee Wellness

OF

 

$300,000

Risk Mgmt

OF

 

($676,000)

Risk Mgmt – ADOT Preventative Loss

OF

 

$150,000

Workers’ Comp

OF

 

$1,942,500

One-Time Telecomm Equipment

OF

 

($302,000)

Enterprise Data Storage Upgrade

OF

 

($250,000)

Electronic Physical Security

OF

 

$960,000

Zuni Settlement Decrease

OF

 

($796,000)

IT Security

OF

 

$299,000

Capitol Police Security

OF

 

$515,100

Rent

OF

 

$100,000

Infrastructure Investment Account

OF

 

$4,713,700

Health Savings Account Study

OF

 

$100,000

  • Appropriates revenues in excess of $4,713,700 from the Telecommunications Fund Infrastructure Improvement Account Fund in FY 2007-2008 to the Department of Administration (ADOA). Requires ADOA to submit a report on the intended use of any funds in excess of $4,713,700 to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) prior to expenditure.

 

  • States the highway hazard assessment line item is to be used to contract for an outside review of the state’s highways for potential hazards. Requires ADOA to submit a report with recommendations to JLBC by April 30, 2008.

 

Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($700)

 

Arizona Department of Agriculture

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$6,300

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($3,100)

Nursery Certification Program

OF

 

$18,600

Egg Inspection Program FTE Positions

OF

 

$146,700

State Laboratory Costs

OF

 

$10,000

Pesticide Label Comprehension Courses

OF

 

$31,500

Pesticide Recycling

OF

 

$100,000

Agricultural Inspections of Ports

GF

10 full time equivalent positions (FTE)

$425,000

Laboratory Costs

GF

 

$104,000

 


AHCCCS

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($78,600)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($9,000)

Eliminate One-time Funding

GF

 

($983,300)

Enrollment & Inflation Growth

GF

 

$93,891,000

KidsCare Parents Statutory Expiration

GF

 

($705,100)

Temporary Medical Coverage Annualization

GF

 

$1,850,000

GME Expansion

GF

 

$3,000,000

Adult Dental

GF

 

$1,000,000

HPV Vaccine

GF

 

$2,869,100

Outlier Methodology Change

GF

 

($5,599,500)

211 Call Center Support

GF

 

$1,500,000

Citizen Verification One-time Funding

GF

 

($3,400,000)

DES IT Eligibility Project

GF

 

$1,300,000

Replace Claims Computer System

GF

 

$500,000

Healthcare Group

GF

 

8,000,000

Dispro Method Change

GF

 

($39,557,000)

Eliminate One-time HIPAA Compliance

OF

 

($152,400)

KidsCare Caseload and Capitation Rate Growth

OF

 

$12,244,300

KidsCare Expansion

OF

 

$4,900,000

KidsCare Parents Statutory Expiration

OF

 

$6,199,500

BNCF Statutory Adjustments

OF

 

$151,200

Tobacco Tax Offset

OF

 

($4,963,500)

Temporary Medical Coverage

OF

 

$824,600

Healthcare Group – PPO $

OF

 

$4,557,200

 

·       Restructures the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments footnote to reflect the change in the DSH payment mechanism that is made in the health and welfare budget reconciliation bill.  Specifies that the DSH appropriation includes $4.2 million for the Maricopa County special health care district and $26.1 million for private hospitals. 

 

·       Reduces the range of actuarial assumptions in the March 1 preliminary report on capitation rate changes from three to two percent.  Requires reporting of policy changes that affect capitation rates even if those changes are required for compliance with federal law.

 

·       Allows the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) Administration, for contract years beginning October 1, 2007, to expend funds for federally matched preventable adult dental services of up to $1,000 per Arizona Long Term Care System (ALTCS) members and federally matched hospice services for non-ALTCS members.

 

·       Deletes the requirement for a one-time AHCCCS report to the JLBC on the fiscal impact of the deficit reduction act.

 

 

Arizona Commission on the Arts

Grant Program

GF

 

$200,000

 

 

State Board of Appraisal

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$400

Cost Increases

OF

 

$7,100

 

Attorney General

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($77,200)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$9,800

Eliminate One-time Equipment

GF

 

($102,300)

Case Management One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,017,400)

Pro Rata Backfill

GF

 

$300,000

Elder Abuse

GF

 

$91,700

Tobacco Enforcement

GF

 

$223,000

ISA Cost Allocation

OF

 

($300,000)

 

Automobile Theft Authority

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($42,300)

Increased Expenditure Authority

OF

 

$196,100

·         Appropriates excess Automobile Theft Authority Fund monies to the department with prior JLBC review.

 

Board of Barbers

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$600

Joint Office Costs

OF

 

$1,500

Program Costs

OF

 

$32,100

 

Board of Behavioral Health Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($1,800)

Eliminate One-time Investigator Costs

OF

 

($200,000)

New Staff

OF

 

$174,900

 


State Capital Postconviction Defender Office

Annualization

GF

 

$501,700

 

State Board for Charter Schools

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($1,300)

School Information Systems

GF

 

$308,100

 

 


State Board of Chiropractic Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$500

Adjustments

OF

 

(5,300)

 

 

Department of Commerce

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($2,200)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($600)

Military Base Study Onetime Funding

GF

 

($250,000)

GADA Deposit

GF

 

$2,000,000

Econ Development Staffing

GF

 

$400,000

International Trade

GF

 

$700,000

CEDC Fund Shift

GF

 

$750,000

Tax Administration

GF

 

$74,200

CEDC Fund Shift

OF

 

($750,000)

 

Arizona Community Colleges

Operating State Aid Formula

GF

 

$574,700

Capital Outlay State Aid Formula

GF

 

($241,600)

Equalization Aid Formula

GF

 

$3,481,100

Out of County Tuition One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,000,000)

New Out of County Tuition

GF

 

$1,200,000

Law/Fire Academy Capital

GF

 

($3,000,000)

Northland Pioneer Capital

GF

Additional $1,000,000 in FY 2008-2009

$1,000,000

·       Outlines allocation of $1,200,000 appropriated to the Rural County Reimbursement Subsidy Special Line Item.

 

·       Allocates a portion of the $1,505,700 Navajo Community College receives in capital outlay state aid for construction of a public safety training facility in Navajo County to be operated by Northland Pioneer Community College.  Also added footnote stating intent of the Legislature to provide $1,000,000 in General Fund monies to Navajo Community College for this facility in FY 2009.

 

Registrar of Contractors

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$30,300

Private Rent Increase

OF

 

$297,900

Additional Personnel

OF

 

$464,800

Salaries

OF

 

$127,600

Information Management System

OF

 

$3,683,000

 

Corporation Commission

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($65,000)

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($50,700)

Administrative Law Staffing

OF

 

$109,300

Attorney Salary Equity

OF

 

$235,100

Division Director

OF

 

$121,900

Legal Services

OF

 

$100,400

Automation Update

OF

 

$450,300

Master Meter Equipment

OF

 

$55,400

Commissioner Expenses

GF

 

$50,000

 

Department of Corrections

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($982,000)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($21,200)

AZNET One-time Funding

GF

 

($2,365,100)

Annualize 1,000 Sex Offender Beds

GF

 

$9,409,500

2,000 New Provisional Beds

GF

 

$31,193,000

Provisional Beds Per Diem Increases

GF

 

$8,007,000

Population Growth

GF

 

$3,308,300

Supervisor Pay Increase

GF

 

$3,000,000

4 New Security Posts

GF

 

$912,500

Sex-Offender Treatment

GF

 

$230,600

Substance Abuse Treatment (Meth)

GF

 

$232,600

Private Provider Rate Increase

GF

 

$3,000,000

Rebase Retirement

GF

 

($6,654,300)

Health Care

GF

 

$13,767,200

Van Pool One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,500,000)

Equipment One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,000,000)

Equipment/Van Pool

GF

 

$1,900,000

Private Provider Rate Increases

OF

 

$1,800,000

Education Adjustment

OF

 

($485,800)

Leap Year Funding

OF

 

$576,600

Inmate Transportation Vehicle Replacement

OF

 

$2,000,000

Utilities

OF

 

$1,000,000

2,000 Provisional Beds

OF

 

$2,000,000

Provisional Beds Per Diem Increases

OF

 

$2,056,200

 

·       Removes reporting requirement to JLBC for ‘off-site’ vehicles.

 

·       Requires the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) to maintain the Security Threat Group Unit and report to JLBC by September 1, 2007 on funding and personnel requirements to facilitate the identification of gang members, including implementation of enhances phone monitoring system, and options for joining the California gangnet system.

 

·       Requires ADC to work with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission to combat gang activity. Requires ADC and DPS to jointly report their findings to JLBC by December 1, 2007.

 

·       Prohibits ADC personnel in the correctional office series who receive a geographic stipend from retaining the stipend if transferred to another department.

 

·       Stipulates that $3,700,000 of the amount appropriated for private provider per diem is for a 4.6% increase for private contractors and that $1,100,000 is for an additional 4.5% for the Central Arizona Correctional facility.

 

·       Appropriates $33,193,000 to ADC to contract for 2,060 new provisional beds in FY 2007-2008.

 

 

Board of Cosmetology

Standard/Technical

OF

 

2,600

IT Equipment

OF

 

12,900

Operating Expense

OF

 

19,000

File Document Management

OF

 

89,000

 

Arizona Criminal Justice Commission

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$3,900

Grants Management System Improvements

OF

 

$225,000

Arizona Youth Survey

OF

 

$25,000

County Attorney Funding

OF

 

$175,000

Victim Compensation Restitution Specialist

OF

 

$75,100

County Indigent Defense

OF

 

$166,000

Crime Victim Assistance Program

OF

 

$400,000

Criminal Justice Information Systems

GF

Appropriates $800,000 in FY 2008-2009

$900,000

Meth Grants One-time Funding

GF

Appropriates $2,000,000 in FY 2008-2009

($3,000,000)

 

·       Prohibits monies for the Grants Management Automation Projects from being spent and specifies that these monies shall revert to the Criminal Justice Enhancement Fund if the Government Information Technology Agency does not approve the Project Investment Justification for the Grants Management Automation Projects.

 

AZ State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind

Voucher Increase

OF

 

$500,700

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($218,100)

School Bus Replacement One-time Funding

GF

 

($220,000)

Air Conditioning One-time Funding

GF

 

($300,000)

Dorm Furniture

GF

 

$50,500

Transportation Fuel Costs

GF

 

$50,500

 

·       Requires JLBC review of the intended use of the funds before the expenditure of any monies in the Voucher Fund Special Line Item in FY 2008 and FY 2009.

 

Comm for the Deaf & the Hard of Hearing

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($4,000)

 

·       Deletes footnote requiring the commission to present any proposed contract for Telecommunication Relay Service to JLBC for review.

 

Board of Dental Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,400

Eliminate One-time Equipment

OF

 

($4,400)

Additional Staff

OF

 

$44,100

Database Upgrades and AG Legal Services

OF

 

$39,200

 

Drug & Gang Prevention Resource Center

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($200)

Department of Economic Security

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($366,100)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($205,800)

AZNET One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,117,300)

ADMINISTRATION

 

 

 

Document Management

GF

 

$500,000

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

 

 

 

Children’s Autism Services

GF

 

$2,300,000

DD Title 19 Long Term Care

GF

 

$28,786,400

Eliminate One-Time Equipment

GF

 

($94,700)

BENEFITS AND MEDICAL ELIGIBILITY

 

 

 

General Assistance Caseload

GF

 

($1,200,000)

TANF Cash Benefits Caseloads

GF

 

($10,457,400)

Case Management System

GF

 

$1,000,000

Child Support Enforcement

 

 

 

Federal Funds Backfill

GF

 

$3,222,100

AGING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

 

 

 

Expand Services to Seniors

GF

 

$1,500,000

Additional Domestic Violence Shelter Beds

GF

 

$3,000,000

Food Bank Trailers

GF

 

$228,000

Independent Living – Blind & Visually Impaired

GF

 

$500,000

CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES

 

 

 

Federal Funds Backfill

GF

 

$13,500,000

Adoption Services

GF

 

$6,691,000

Adoption Services Academic Tutoring

GF

 

$300,000

Permanent Guardianship Caseload

GF

 

$1,142,100

Children Services

GF

 

$6,900,000

Assistance for Older Foster Youth

GF

 

$1,000,000

JOBS/CHILD CARE

 

 

 

Summer Youth Employment

GF

 

$250,000

Childcare Provider Rates

GF

 

$9,000,000

UI Operations

OF

 

$3,495,700

Child Support Funds

OF

 

$500,000

Homeless Trust Fund One-time Funding

OF

 

($850,000)

Child Care Error Rate Report

OF

 

$150,000

Long Term Care Provider Increase

OF

 

$3,100,000

 

  • Reduces the range of actuarial assumptions in the March 1 preliminary report on capitation rate changes from three to two percent.  Requires reporting of policy changes that affect capitation rates even if those changes are required for compliance with federal law.

 

  • Requires the Department of Economic Development (DES) to submit a report for JLBC review before implementing any developmental disabilities or long-term care statewide provider rate increases that were not specifically authorized by the Legislature or required by court mandates or federal law.  Requires the report to include the estimated cost of the increase and an ongoing source of funding.

 

  • Increases the amount by which the DES appropriation represents a percentage of market rates for community services providers and independent service agreement providers contracting with the Division of Developmental Disorders from 99.69 percent of the FY 2005-2006 market rates to 100 percent of the FY 2007-2008 market rates for all services on the published rate schedule.

 

  • Stipulates that the long-term care appropriation provides an FY 2007-2008 capitation rate increase of four percent.  Requires DES to reallocate resources within its budget, without supplemental funding, to pay for any capitation rate increases above five percent.

 

  • Stipulates that $7,288,900 of the day care line item and $1,711,100 of the transitional child care line item shall be used to increase the maximum provider reimbursement rate by five percent in FY 2007-2008.

 

  • Requires $300,000 for adoption services academic tutoring to be used for adopted children whose education has been disrupted due to multiple out-of-home placements in this state and as a result the child is working below grade level in at least one core subject.  Clarifies that this provision should not be construed to impose a duty on the state or create any right in a person or group if that would require an expenditure of state monies in excess of the appropriation.

 

  • Deletes the footnote requiring DES to increase expenditures from the domestic violence line item to faith based programs (this increase has already occurred).

 

  • Deletes the footnote specifying a 12.5 percent increase in the adoption subsidy and foster care rates (this increase has already occurred).

 

  • Deletes the footnotes related to the use of the JOBS appropriation for nonpermanent positions and for contracts for education and training entities.

 

  • Deletes the requirement for a one-time report on the number of child care programs in public school facilities.

 

  • Requires DES to verify that food bank products are distributed to all rural areas.

 

 

Department of Education

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($15,000)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$700

BASIC STATE AID

 

 

 

Basic State Aid and Other Formula Growth

GF

 

$178,007,600

JTED Formula

GF

 

$27,000,000

Kindergarten Weight Increase

GF

 

$80,000,000

Charter School Funding

GF

 

$3,000,000

OTHER

 

 

 

Information Technology One-time Funding

GF

 

($2,500,000)

E-Learning One-time Funding

GF

 

($3,000,000)

Teach America One-time Funding

GF

 

($2,000,000)

Physical Education Funding

GF

Retains $110,000  for program

($490,000)


 

Teacher Salary

GF

$46,000,000 appropriated in K-12 education budget reconciliation bill

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Math and Science Initiative

GF

 

$2,500,000

 

Teach for America

GF

 

$1,000,000

 

End of Course Testing

GF

 

$300,000

 

Statewide Standards for Professional Development Design

GF

 

$150,000

 

Master Teacher

GF

 

$2,000,000

 

IT Security Services

GF

 

$200,000

 

One-time Funding

OF

 

($1,865,400)

 

Teacher Certification

OF

 

$195,100

 

·         Conditions $14,300,000 in English Learner monies upon court order that the state has taken appropriate action to address the orders in the Flores v. State of Arizona case and that finding bears a rational relationship to costs.

 

·         Modifies footnote in Administration cost center noting that operating lump sum appropriation also includes $200,000 and 2 FTE Positions for IT security.

 

·         Specifies purposes of English learner administration funding.

 

·         Specifies use of $150,000 for new "Statewide Standards for Professional Development Design" special line item.

 

·         Requires the Department of Education (ADE) to distribute Master teacher monies to the State Board of Education to distribute to the Arizona K-12 Center.

 

 

Department of Emergency & Military Affairs

 

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($10,900)

 

Project Challenge One-time Funding

GF

 

($400,000)

 

Nuclear Emergency Management Fund

GF

 

($677,900)

 

 

 

Department of Environmental Quality

 

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$122,000

 

Water Permits

OF

 

($200,000)

 

APP Staff

OF

 

$547,800

 

Water Quality Fee Fund Authority

OF

 

$710,900

 

Expedited Water Quality Permits

OF

 

$600,000

 

Emissions Control Contract

OF

 

$1,500,000

 

Air Quality Staff

OF

 

$214,800

 

Recycling Compliance

OF

 

$150,200

 

Water Permit One-time Funding

GF

 

($200,000)

 

Small Rural Water Systems One-time Funding

GF

 

($750,000)

 

Surface Water Permitting

GF

 

$530,500

 

Water Supply Development Fund Deposit

GF

 

$250,000

Chromium & Contamination

GF

2 FTE

$155,100

 

Border Inspectors

GF

2 FTE

$180,000

 

Emergency Air Response

GF

1 FTE

$100,000

 

 

  • Appropriates, to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), all water quality fee fund revenues in excess of $5,859,100 in FY 2007-2008 and $5,839,100 in FY 2008-2009 and requires ADEQ to submit intended uses of the excess monies to the JLBC for review.

 

  • Appropriates $1,181,800 to the Arizona Pollution Discharge Elimination System (AZPDES) in FY 2007-2008 and FY 2008-2009 for the purposes of AZPDES permit program as established in the Clean Water Act.

 

  • Conditions an additional appropriation of $123,000 and 2 FTEs from the GF in FY 2008-2009 for program expenditures in FY 2008-2009 on ADEQ reducing the permit processing times for the AZPDES by at least ten percent by December 31, 2007.

 

Governor's Office of Equal Opportunity

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($500)

 

Arizona Exposition and State Fair Board

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($34,200)

 

Board of Executive Clemency

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($23,000)

Victim Researcher

GF

1 FTE

$42,500

 

Dept of Financial Institutions

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($54,200)

Prod./Public Protection Enhancement

GF

1 FTE

$45,600

IT Maintenance

GF

 

$50,000

Payday Lendor

GF

1 FTE

$56,800

 

Department of Fire, Building & Life Safety

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($13,000)

Fire Marshal Positions

GF

1 FTE

$70,000

Manufactured Housing

GF

 

$100,000

National Fire Incident Reporting System

GF

 

$7,000

 

 

Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,200

Joint Office Costs

OF

 

$6,300

 

Arizona Game and Fish Department

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$271,400

One-time Allocations

OF

 

($1,083,800)

Employee Compensation

OF

 

$643,000

Employee Development

OF

 

$10,000

Rebase Retirement

OF

 

($449,400)

Motor Pool

OF

 

$1,337,200

Operating Expenses

OF

 

$168,900

IT Equipment

OF

 

$360,000

Field Equipment

OF

 

$153,700

Radio Towers

OF

 

$250,000

Radio Tower Upgrade

OF

 

$77,000

Shooting Range

OF

 

$500,000

Shooting Range Grants

OF

 

$170,000

Hunting Club Grant Program

OF

 

$50,000

Urban Fishing Program

OF

 

$25,500

Hatchery Planning

OF

 

$75,000

Fish Management

OF

 

$120,000

Lower Gila Wildlife Area

OF

 

$75,000

North Kaibab Deer Project

OF

 

$200,000

Grassland Restoration

OF

 

$100,000

Wildlife Nature Festival

OF

 

$50,000

Watercraft Outreach

OF

 

$1,275,000

Watercraft OUI

OF

 

$250,000

Boating Safety Grants

OF

 

$325,000

Life Jacket Loaner Program

OF

 

$50,000

Watercraft Compliance Survey

OF

 

$100,000

Watercraft On-Line Registrations

OF

 

$450,000

Watercraft Cost Increases

OF

 

$25,000

Boating Facilities

OF

 

$175,000

3 Patrol Watercraft

OF

 

$175,000

Wildlife Habitat One-time Funding

GF

 

($3,500,000)

 

·       Exempts $100,000 shooting range appropriation from lapsing through Dec. 31, 2009.

 

 

Department of Gaming

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$10,400

Enforcement Division Staffing

OF

 

$189,100

Joint Monitoring System

OF

 

$1,188,100

Eliminate One-time Fleet Vehicle Acquisitions

OF

 

($12,000)

Gaming Crimes Prosecution

OF

 

$296,600

Certification Staffing

OF

 

$142,300

Problem Gambling

OF

 

$911,400

IT Equipment

OF

 

$663,000

 

·       Requires monies for the joint monitoring system that are subject to Information Technology Authorization Committee (ITAC) approval to revert to the Instructional Improvement Fund if ITAC does not approve the project investment justification.

 

Arizona Geological Survey

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($5,200)

Eliminate One-time Equipment Funding

GF

 

($27,000)

 

Government Information Technology Agency

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,400

Web Portal Contract

OF

 

$3,700,000

 

Office of the Governor

Additional Funding

GF

 

$500,000

 

Gov's Office of Strategic Planning & Budgeting

Standard/Technical 

GF

 

($1,200)

 

Department of Health Services

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($235,400)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$103,100

Eliminate One-time Equipment

GF

 

($89,600)

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

 

 

 

Title XIX Caseload

GF

 

$36,713,200

SMI Housing One-time Funding

GF

 

($2,500,000)

Meth Grants One-time Funding

GF

 

($2,500,000)

IMD Waiver

GF

 

$2,000,000

Part D Copays

GF

 

$322,600

Indirect Cost Fund Shift

GF

 

($1,000,000)

First Responder Crisis Intervention Training Grants

GF

 

$250,000

ARIZONA STATE HOSPITAL

 

 

 

Electronic Medical Records

GF

 

$300,000

Security Officers Salaries

GF

 

$100,000

Utilities Increase

GF

 

$250,000

Arizona State Hospital Revenue

GF

 

$2,000,000

PUBLIC HEALTH

 

 

 

Alzheimer’s Research One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,000,000)

Autism Research One-time Funding

GF

 

($7,100,000)

Diabetes Education One-time Funding

GF

 

($700,000)

Umbilical Cord Pamphlet One-time Funding

GF

 

($30,000)

County Tuberculosis Program

GF

 

$400,000

Valley Fever

GF

 

$300,000

Breast and Cervical Screening

GF

 

$250,000

Osteoporosis Outreach

GF

 

($300,000)

Renal and Non-Renal Disease Management

GF

 

($300,000)

Vaccines

GF

 

$2,226,100

Senior Food Programs

GF

 

$600,000

Childcare Licensing

GF

 

$250,000

Nursing Care Incentive Grants

OF

 

$271,500

Autism Pilot One-time Funding

OF

 

($2,300,000)

Southern AZ Trauma Center One-time Funding

OF

 

($2,000,000)

Folic Acid

OF

 

$200,000

Newborn Screening Program

OF

 

$661,000

Community Health Centers

OF

 

$1,500,000

Arizona State Hospital Revenue

OF

 

($2,000,000)

Biotech Grants Expiring Authority

OF

 

($5,000,000)

Indirect Cost Fund

OF

 

$1,000,000

 

  • Specifies the distribution of the $400,000 appropriation for nursing care institution quality improvement grants.  Requires that appropriation to be used to award grants to applicant nursing care institutions that have received one or more deficiencies on their annual licensure survey.  Stipulates the purpose of the appropriation is to improve the quality of the facility based on specified quality measures.  Specifies how the nursing care institution may use the funding and how the Department of Health Services (DHS) shall make the awards.  Allows DHS to use up to 10 percent of the appropriation for administration and specifies DHS may not use the monies for any other purposes without JLBC review.

 

  • Specifies the appropriation amount from the Medically Needy Account (Account) of the Tobacco Tax and Health Care Fund.  Requires JLBC and the Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) to notify the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives whether the total FY 2007-2008 revenue of the Account will meet or exceed that specified amount.  Appropriates an additional $750,000 from the Account to the Community Health Centers line item if the revenue exceeds the estimated amount.  Exempts that additional appropriation from lapsing.

 

  • Adds a requirement that the DHS quarterly report on settling the Arnold v. Sarn lawsuit include the department’s progress on and compliance with the exit criteria.

 

  • Prescribes the distribution of monies appropriated for youth methamphetamine prevention programs; requires a quarterly summary by DHS of the reports submitted by organizations receiving the funding.

 

  • States that it is the intent of the Legislatures that the statewide average capitation rate increase for children’s behavioral health attributable to the J.K. v. Gerard lawsuit is $4.70 per member per month, beginning July 1, 2007.

 

  • Requires DHS, before making an expenditure on contract compliance, to present a proposed expenditure plan to JLBC for review.

 

  • Reduces the range of actuarial assumptions in the March 1 preliminary report on capitation rate changes from three to two percent.  Requires reporting of policy changes that affect capitation rates even if those changes are required for compliance with federal law. 

 

  • Adds Vital Records Management and Women’s Services to the list of line items that require JLBC review before transfers of monies in or out of the line item.

 

  • Stipulates that community health centers item receives monies from the first Tobacco Tax deposits to the medically needy account in FY 2007-2008.

 

  • Requires DHS to provide pamphlets on umbilical cord blood to physicians and health care institutions free of charge.

 

  • Requires a report from DHS to the Speaker of the House, President of the Senate and JLBC on the adverse effects of vaccines.

 

  • Deletes the footnote specifying the distribution of county prenatal services grant funding.

 

  • Deletes the footnote requiring DHS to report monthly on Non-Title XIX eligible clients reviewed for Title XIX eligibility under Proposition 204, the number that convert from Non-Title XIX eligibility to Title XIX eligibility and the number of newly enrolled Proposition 204 members.

 

  • Deletes the footnote specifying the distribution of salary increases at the Arizona State Hospital (those increases have already occurred).

 

 

 

Arizona Historical Society

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($500)

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($38,200)

OOE Support

GF

 

$100,000

 

·         Deletes footnote requiring $50,000 of field services and grants to go to Phoenix Museum of History.

 

Prescott Historical Society

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($16,400)

 

Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$400

Program Costs

OF

 

$5,000

 

Department of Housing

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,200

Compliance Inspectors

OF

 

$66,500

Data Technical Assistance

OF

 

$55,400

 

Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($1,100)

 

Industrial Commission

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$6,000

Additional Staff

OF

 

$194,100

Elevator Inspectors

OF

 

$168,400

Minimum Wage

OF

 

$121,700

Department of Insurance

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($101,000)

Insurance Fraud Investigators

GF

 

$294,000

NCOIL Participation

OF

 

($25,000)

Healthcare Group Audit

OF

 

$200,000

 

·         Deletes footnote requiring National Conference of Insurance Legislators participation.

 


Judiciary

Supreme Court

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($158,000)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($34,700)

07 Judges Pay (Enacted) Annualization

GF

 

$48,600

Integrated Family Court One-time Funding

GF

 

($850,000)

GPS Monitoring Transfer

GF

 

($750,000)

CASA Fund Shift

GF

 

$753,000

Commission on Judicial Conduct Operating Costs

GF

 

$63,000

Criminal Case Processing

OF

 

$1,500,000

·         Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to report on probation staffing and funding by November 1, 2007.

Court of Appeals

Standard/Technical Division I

GF

 

($122,900)

Standard/Technical Division II

GF

 

($48,400)

Equipment

GF

 

($63,500)

07 Judges Pay (Enacted) Annualization

GF

 

$207,700

Electronic Filing – Division I

GF

 

$138,400

Operating Costs – Division II

GF

 

$61,600

 

 

Superior Court

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($3,800)

Standard/Technical SLI

OF

 

$4,400

Rebase Retirement

GF

 

($632,400)

07 Judges Pay (Enacted) Annualization

GF

 

$745,000

5 New Judgeships

GF

 

$416,500

GPS Monitoring Transfer

GF

 

$750,000

CORP Administration

GF

 

$192,300

 

Department of Juvenile Corrections

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($122,500)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($4,800)

Eliminate One-time Funding

GF

 

($495,500)

FY 07 AzNET One-time Funding

GF

 

($330,900)

Population Growth

GF

 

($918,000)

Rebase Retirement

GF

 

($580,500)

Youth Officer Pay

GF

 

$443,900

Supervisor Pay Increase

GF

 

$100,000

State Juvenile Education System Adjustment

OF

 

$48,700

Adobe Mountain Well

OF

 

($340,000)

 

State Land Department

Eliminate One-time Increase for Dam Repair

OF

 

($230,600)

Due Diligence

OF

 

$500,000

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($53,600)

Eliminate One-time Funding

GF

 

($221,300)

CAP Fee Reduction

GF

 

($79,300)

Fire Suppression One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,500,000)

Due Diligence One-time Funding

GF

 

($500,000)

Land Sales and Management

GF

Includes 2 FTE to process mineral lease applications

$775,000

Fire Suppression Operations

GF

 

$250,000

Forestry Support/Operating Staff

GF

4 FTE

$364,500

Document Processing and Security

GF

2 FTE in 2007-2008 and

4 FTE in FY 2008-2009

$227,800

·         Outlines the items to be included in a report by the State Land Department to the JLBC on the planning, sale and lease of trust land in the preceding year, but does not include a previous requirement to provide an analysis of the volume of trust land in each county in comparison with private and other real estate.

 

·         Requires at least ten percent of the $775,000 appropriated for state trust land sales and management in FY 2007-2008 and FY 2008-2009 to be used for the management and sales of state trust land in rural areas.

 

·         Requires Department to report on mineral leasing related functions by December 31, 2007.

 

·         Removes footnote related to dam breach analysis or dam repair costs, earth fissure assessment or fissure risk zoning or radio system upgrades which were included in FY 2006-2007 general appropriations act.

 

Law Enforcement Merit System Council

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($2,200)

 

Legislature

Auditor General

Special Audits

GF

Retains $150,000 for special audits

$0

Procurement Study

GF

 

$300,000

 

House of Representatives

Additional Funding

GF

 

$500,000

 

Joint Legislative Budget Committee

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($400)

 

Legislative Council

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($100)

Arizona Centennial One-time Funding

GF

 

($2,500,000)

 

AZ State Library, Archives & Public Records

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($4,300)

 

Senate

Additional Funding

GF

 

$500,000

 

AZ State Library, Archives & Public Records

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$700

 

Department of Liquor Licenses & Control

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($19,000)

Equipment Reduction

GF

 

($10,000)

Data Processing One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,250,000)

 

Arizona State Lottery Commission

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($24,300)

Equipment

OF

 

$179,400

Instant Ticket Staff

OF

 

$39,400

Telecomm Savings

OF

 

($2,160,000)

Retailer Commissions

OF

 

$658,200

Instant Tickets

OF

 

$161,500

Special Investigator

OF

 

$80,800

On-Line Vendor Fees

OF

 

($289,200)

 

Arizona Medical Board

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$22,900

Eliminate One-Time Equipment

OF

 

($152,500)

 

State Mine Inspector

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($5,300)

New Telephone System

GF

 

$17,000

Abandoned Mines Safety Fund Deposit

GF

 

$50,000

Fill Vacant Positions

GF

 

$540,000

 

Department of Mines & Mineral Resources

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($4,000)


 

Naturopathic Physician Examiners Board

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,100

Joint Office Costs

OF

 

$21,000

Investigation Costs

OF

 

$42,600

Program Costs

OF

 

$28,200

State Board of Nursing

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$3,700

IT Issues

OF

 

$177,500

Equipment Replacement

OF

 

$73,600

Private Rent Increase

OF

 

$20,900

 

Nursing Care Inst. Administrators Board

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$10,900

Expense Reduction

OF

 

($58,800)

 

Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$900

 

AZ Navigable Stream Adjudication Committee

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($2,200)

One-Time Funding for Navigability

Reports

GF

 

($92,000)

 

 

State Board of Dispensing Opticians

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($300)

Administrative Expenses

OF

 

$12,300

 

State Board of Optometry

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$500

Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$8,000

Eliminate One-time Database Funding

OF

 

($100,000)

Compliance Personnel

OF

 

$74,700

IT Improvements

OF

 

$22,000

 

Arizona State Parks Board

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($25,200)

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($15,300)

Arizona Trails One-time Funding

GF

 

($125,000)

Enhancement Fund Offset

GF

Adds additional $1,500,000 in

FY 2008-2009

$1,000,000

Enhancement Fund Offset

OF

 

($1,000,000)

 

Personnel Board

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($200)

 

Arizona State Board of Pharmacy

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$5,000

New Compliance Officer

OF

 

$116,700

Compliance Officer Salary Increases

OF

 

$101,500

Substance Abuse Program

OF

 

$46,300

U of A School of Pharmacy

OF

 

$600,000

Attorney General IGA

OF

 

$19,600

 

Board of Physical Therapy Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,200

Program Costs

OF

 

$84,900

 

Arizona Pioneers' Home

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$28,500

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($44,900)

Equipment

OF

 

$13,000

Prescription Drugs

OF

 

($186,400)

Health Insurance

OF

 

$75,700

Nurse Pay Increase

OF

 

$87,800

 

 

State Board of Podiatry Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$700

Salary/Clerical Support

OF

 

$15,400

Joint Office Costs

OF

 

$700

 

Commission for Postsecondary Education

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$600

AMEPAC

OF

 

($51,400)

529 Plan

OF

 

$37,300

12 Plus Partnership

OF

 

$10,300

Expand Operating Budget

OF

 

$13,500

Postsecondary Education Case Managers

GF

 

$100,000

Private Postsecondary Education Student Financial Assistance Program (PFAP) Increase

GF

 

$400,000

Higher Education Scholarships Administration

GF

 

$300,000


 

 

·       Allows up to $500,000 of the $5,300,000 appropriated for the Postsecondary Education Grant Program to be allocated for the administration of the program in FY 2007-2008 and FY 2008-2009.

 

 

State Board of Psychologist Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$600

Equipment

OF

 

($7,600)

 

Department of Public Safety

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($127,500)

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($181,100)

Elimination of One-time Funding

GF

 

($1,949,000)

Rebase Retirement

GF

 

($2,495,600)

Mobile Data Computers

GF

 

($378,600)

Officer Pay Plan – Promotions

GF

 

$539,500

Sex Offender Compliance – 4FTEs

GF

 

$187,600

Sworn Officer Pay Adjustment

GF

 

$2,000,000

Motorist Assist and Detention Officers

GF

 

$250,000

Background Investigator/ Polygraph Examiner

GF

 

$389,500

Border Security/ GITEM

GF

 

2,500,000

Criminal Justice Services Personnel

GF

 

$595,800

Tribal Partnerships

GF

 

$150,000

Nonferrous Material Theft

GF

 

$150,000

Rebase Retirement

OF

 

($373,700)

Sworn Pay Adjustment

OF

 

$672,900

Helicopter Lease-Purchase Agreement Expiration

OF

 

($764,900)

Crime Lab Staff

OF

10 FTE

$1,219,500

Crime Lab Equipment

OF

 

$133,100

 

·       Requires on the Department of Public Service (DPS) to maintain a 287 memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in order to distribute gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission (GIITEM) monies.

 

·       Requires officers trained pursuant to a 287 MOU to verify the immigration status of gang or suspected gang members if there is reason to believe they have entered or remained in the U.S. illegally except if doing so would jeopardize an ongoing investigation or damage an informant relationship.  

 

·       Deletes provisions requiring cities, towns, counties or other entities to maintain a 287g memorandum of understanding in order to enter into a GIITEM agreement and receive GIITEM monies.

 

·       Requires cities, towns, counties and other entities receiving GIITEM monies to provide not less that 15 percent of the cost of services and prohibits DPS from providing more that 85 percent of the cost of services as opposed to prior language requiring cities, counties and other entities to provide exactly 15 percent and DPS to provide exactly 85 percent of the cost of services.

 

·       Removes prohibition on $10,000,000 of the GIITEM monies from being used for increased administration or to add a new unit.  

 

·       Lists illegal immigration related duties for additional DPS personnel hired with GIITEM monies.

 

·       Specifies that the $2,000,000 appropriated from the GF for sworn officer salary adjustments is to be used for Officer I, II and III classifications.  Allow the $672,900 appropriated from the Parity Compensation Fund for sworn officer salary adjustments to be distributed as determined by the department.

 

·       Requires DPS to provide a report of the distribution of monies for sworn salary adjustment to the JLBC by September 30, 2007.

 

·       Requires DPS to include salary comparisons with other law enforcement agencies in the report.

 

·       Contains intent language relating to the use of anti-racketeering (RICO) monies received by DPS.  States that it is the intent of the Legislature that: a) $709,000 of the RICO monies be used for the DPS personal computer replacement program, b) that $668,700 be used for the tri-agency disaster recovery system, that $2,200,000 be used for the detailed design of the long-term interoperability solution.

 

·       Requires JLBC review of the expenditure plan for the $2,200,000 for the detailed design of the long-term interoperability solution prior to expenditure 

 

Arizona Department of Racing

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($2,800)

Increased Expenditure Caps

OF

 

$172,000

 

 

Radiation Regulatory Agency

 

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$100

 

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($10,400)

 

One-time Funding

GF

 

($73,000)

 

Nuclear Emergency Management Fund

GF

 

($520,200)

 

Radioactive Compliance Staff

GF

Includes Fee Study,

1 FTE in FY 2007-2008 &

2 FTE in FY 2008-2009

$73,200 

 

X-Ray Compliance Staff

GF

1 FTE

$73,200

 

  • Requires the Radiation Regulatory Agency to report to the JLBC, by November 1, 2007, detailing the fee increases that would be necessary to make that agency self-supporting.

 

 

Arizona Rangers' Pensions

 

Standard/Technical

GF

 

$400

 

 

 

State Real Estate Department

 

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($37,400)

 

Licensing Staffing

GF

 

$115,200

 

Complaint Processing

GF

 

$205,000

 

Investigations Staffing

GF

 

$49,200

 

IT Update

GF

 

$44,300

 

 

 

Residential Utility Consumer Office

 

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($1,500)

 

 

 

Board of Respiratory Care Examiners

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$300

Software

OF

 

$1,700

Additional Staff

OF

 

$13,400

ERE Adjustment

OF

 

$29,000

 

Arizona State Retirement System

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($17,500)

Records Management

OF

 

$130,300

Investment Management FTE

OF

 

$129,100

Long-Term Disability Administration

OF

 

($97,700)

One-Time Costs

OF

 

($383,700)

Fill Vacant Positions

OF

 

$231,200

Increased Salaries, Reclassifications & Overtime

OF

 

$437,100

Technology Upgrades

OF

 

$678,800

 

·       States that $678,800 in FY 2007-2008 and $1,154,800 in FY 2008-2009 for technology upgrades shall not be spent and will revert to the Arizona State Retirement System Account if the Information Technology Authorization Committee does not approve the Project Investment Justification for technology upgrades.

 

Department of Revenue

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$16,900

One-time Costs

OF

 

($72,500)

Tobacco Stamps

OF

 

$107,300

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($205,100)

Lease-Purchase Rent

GF

 

$737,800

Small City Grants

GF

Continues FY 2006-2007 base amount  of $850,000

$0

Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit Admin.

GF

 

($45,000)

BRITS Operational Support

GF

16 FTE

$1,378,300

BRITS One-time Equipment

GF

 

($354,600)

School Facilities Board

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($11,800)

New School Debt Services

GF

 

($3,766,300)

New School Construction

GF

 

$120,000,000

School Facilities Liaisons

GF

 

$121,500

 

Secretary of State

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($100)

HAVA Appropriation

OF

 

($5,000,000)

Professional Employer Organization FTE

OF

 

($70,000)

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($4,400)

High Speed Copier

GF

 

($200,000)

Microfilming and Document Storage

GF

 

$92,000

Other Operating Expenses

GF

 

$60,000

 

·       Requires JLBC review of any transfer to, or from, the amount appropriated for election services.

 

·       Specifies that the FY 2007-2008 appropriation from the election systems improvement fund for the purposes of the Help America Vote Act is exempt from lapsing until June 30, 2009.

 

State Boards' Office

Joint Office Cost Adjustment

OF

 

$79,200

 

Structural Pest Control Commission

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,000

Information Technology Services

OF

 

$72,500

Additional Attorney General Resources

OF

 

$88,800

IT Equipment

OF

 

$81,800

Examination Consultant

OF

 

$8,000

Northern Arizona Office

OF

 

$87,500

Fund Shift

OF

 

$109,500

Rent Decrease

OF

 

($8,800)

Additional Agency Office Space

OF

 

$76,400

 

State Board of Tax Appeals

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($2,300)

 

State Board of Technical Registration

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$100

Home Inspector

OF

 

$54,600

Customer Service Representative

OF

 

$40,900

Drug Lab Remediation Staff

OF

 

$95,700

 

Office of Tourism

Formula Funding

GF

 

$885,800

 

Department of Transportation

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($163,200)

One-time Cost

OF

 

($670,500)

Engineer Pay Plan

OF

 

$4,663,000

Vehicle Inspection Workload

OF

 

$238,800

Motor Carrier Workload

OF

 

$488,000

Third Party Workload

OF

 

$97,400

Highway Maintenance Miles/Barriers/Cost Increases

OF

 

$7,464,300

Camp Verde Maintenance Camp

OF

 

$750,000

Customer Service Automation Equipment/VIN

OF

 

$789,500

Fraud Investigations

OF

 

$993,400

Grand Canyon Airport Equipment

OF

 

$253,000

Grand Canyon Airport Phone System

OF

 

$125,000

 

·       Designates $2,663,000 of the amount appropriated for the highway program in FY 2007-2008 for performance pay for participants in the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) engineer pay plan and requires ADOT to establish performance measures with measurable quality and quantity objectives for participants designed to increase productivity and improve quality of state services or products.

 

·       Outlines the distribution options and performance plan review requirements.

 

·       Requires ADOT to submit semiannual instead of quarterly progress reports to the JLBC for review of the progress in increasing third party transactions.

 

·       Expands Motor Vehicle Division wait time report to include break down by metropolitan and non-metropolitan area and information on information on transaction types, staffing levels and productivity.  Requires report to include information about quantities of transactions by third parties by metropolitan and non-metropolitan area.

 

·       Removes the footnote requiring ADOT to report to JLBC on whether the percent of reviewed third party transactions can be reduced below 10 percent and still retain statistical validity.

 

·       Removes the footnote regarding the Motor Vehicle Division’s computer system assessment and extends the use of the $500,000 dedicated for that purpose in the Transportation budget reconciliation bill.

 

·       Removes the footnote requiring ADOT to report to JLBC for a review on related to shift in funding for MVD counter clerks.

 

State Treasurer

Remote Access

OF

 

$33,800

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($28,200)

Justice of Peace Salaries

GF

 

$173,500

Portfolio Order Management System

GF

 

$100,000

Compliance Officer/Internal Officer

GF

 

$125,800

Business Process Re-engineering

GF

 

$80,000

IT Equipment Replacement Schedule

GF

 

$79,200

Remote Journaling

GF

 

$63,000

 

·         Modifies the footnote setting the investment management fee at eight basis points to require that the Treasurer report to JLBC any proposed changes in the investment management fee and their associated fiscal impacts.

 

Commission on Uniform State Laws

Eliminate Agency

GF

 

($52,300)


 

Universities

Board of Regents

WICHE Subsidies

GF

 

$544,300

WICHE Administrative Fees

GF

 

$4,000

AFAT

GF

 

$2,880,000

 

ASU Main Campus

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($45,100)

ASU Main Enrollment Formula

GF

 

$10,740,900

ASU Barry Goldwater Papers One-time Funding

GF

 

($529,000)

ASU Water Institute One-time Funding

GF

 

($100,000)

ASU Research Facility Lease (03 Law)

GF

 

$13,555,000

ASU Biomedical Campus Phx

GF

 

$5,250,000

ASU Bioinformatics

GF

 

$2,000,000

ASU Student/Faculty Retention

GF

 

$15,064,000

ASU Math and Science Teachers

GF

 

$562,500

Enrollment Growth

OF

 

$7,159,500

ASU East Campus

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($11,300)

ASU East Research Facility Lease (03 Law)

GF

 

$917,000

ASU East Enrollment Formula

GF

 

$3,808,900

Enrollment Growth

OF

 

$2,408,800

ASU West Campus

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($14,600)

Criminal Justice Program

GF

 

$1,000,000

ASU West Enrollment Formula

GF

 

$1,638,300

Enrollment Growth

OF

 

$1,006,700

Northern Arizona University

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($217,100)

Water Institute One-time Funding

GF

 

($100,000)

Enrollment Growth

GF

 

$4,439,400

Research Facility Lease (03 Law)

GF

 

$5,900,000

Health Professionals

GF

 

$4,000,000

Math and Science Teacher

GF

 

$1,125,000

Retention – Student/Faculty

GF

 

$4,736,000

Enrollment Growth

OF

 

$2,577,600

UA Main Campus

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($185,000)

Enrollment Formula

GF

 

($1,283,000)

Water Institute One-time Funding

GF

 

($100,000)

Research Facility Lease (03 Law)

GF

 

$14,253,000

Biomedical Campus Phx

GF

 

$5,250,000

Math and Science Teachers

GF

 

$562,500

Student/Faculty Retention

GF

 

$10,000,000

Enrollment Growth

OF

 

($803,400)

 

UA Health Sciences Center

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($17,900)

Enrollment Formula

GF

 

$677,800

College of Medicine Phx

GF

 

$6,000,000

College of Pharmacy Phx

GF

 

$1,500,000

Telemedicine

GF

 

$1,000,000

Enrollment Growth

OF

 

$465,900

 

 

University Footnotes

 

·       States that the $2,250,000 appropriation for the math and science teacher initiative shall be deposited into the mathematics, science and special education teacher student loan fund established by A.R.S. § 15-784.  The Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) shall use $1,750,000 for student loans to eligible prospective math and science teachers and $500,000 for student loans to eligible prospective special education teachers.  Allows up to $100,000 to be used for administrative costs.

 

·       Requires, on or before December 1 of each year, ABOR to submit a student retention report that provides for each university the number of full-time positions dedicated to student retention, the number of new hires and other related expenditures funded through legislative appropriations dedicated to student retention, and freshman and sophomore retention rates.

 

·       Requires Arizona State University and the University of Arizona to jointly submit an expenditure plan to the Joint Committee on Capital Review (JCCR) for review before spending the amounts appropriated for the Phoenix Biomedical Campus schematic design.  Also requires the submission of the scope, purpose and estimated cost to the JCCR for review after schematic design is complete

 

Department of Veterans' Services

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$31,100

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($30,000)

Eliminate One-time Equipment

GF

 

($91,000)

Veterans' Benefit Counselors

GF

 

$985,400

Northern Arizona Veterans' Cemetery

GF

 

($182,700)

Agency Support Staff

GF

 

$444,900

Fiduciary Operating Costs

GF

 

$242,300

Pearl Harbor Memorial

GF

 

($69,000)

WWII Monument – Tucson

GF

 

$100,000

Veterans’ Home

GF

 

$3,457,900

 

 

Department of Water Resources

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($201,300)

Adjudication Support One-time Funding

GF

 

$1,000,000

Conservation & Drought Programs

GF

6 FTE

$500,000

Upper San Pedro Water District

GF

 

$250,000

Water Supply Development Fund Deposit

GF

 

See DEQ

Water Protection Fund

GF

 

$1,000,000

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$400

 

 

·         Exempts from lapsing, through June 30, 2010, monies appropriated for the purposes of rural water studies.

 

·         Removes previous requirement that JLBC review any transfer of monies to or from the assured and adequate water supply special line item.  The previous requirement also included an expenditure plant by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) to JLBC describing how the money in the special line item would be used to accelerate the program application process.

 

·         Requires the monies in the rural water studies line item to be spent to assess local water use needs and to develop plans for sustainable future water supplies in rural areas outside the state’s Active Management Areas (AMAs) and not be made available for other ADWR operating expenditures.

 

·         Requires monies in the adjudication support special line item to be used for the exclusive purposes of providing technical assistance to the courts on water rights adjudications issues.

 

·         Removes footnote specifying how automated groundwater monitoring monies must be spent.

 

Veterinary Medical Examining Board

Standard/Technical

OF

 

$1,700

Equipment Replacement

OF

 

$11,500

Professional and Outside Services

OF

 

$4,400

 

Department of Weights & Measures

Standard/Technical

OF

 

($700)

Standard/Technical

GF

 

($9,600)

Rent Increase

OF

 

$28,000

Computer Equipment

OF

 

($4,600)

In-State Travel

OF

 

$13,600

Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Testing

OF

 

$20,800

One-time Equipment

GF

 

($22,000)

Phone Upgrade

OF

 

$22,600

Lab Accreditation

GF

 

$11,400

New Equipment

GF

 

$22,000

 

Other Issues

 

2.      Appropriates $62,000,000 from the State Highway Fund in FY 2007-2008 for deposit in the Statewide Transportation Acceleration Needs (STAN) Account.

 

3.      Adds $68.8 million GF and $19.5 million OF to provide a state employee salary increase of 3.25 percent, effective July 1, 2007.  0.25 percent of the increase is for performance pay. Allows universities to determine the distribution of faculty pay raises.

4.      Adds $2.6 million GF and $1.1 million OF for salary increases for assistant attorney generals.  This amount is in addition to the 3.25 percent state employee salary increase.

 

5.      Adds $20.2 million GF and $7 million OF for the employer share of a health insurance increase.

 

6.      Adds $16 million GF and $3.2 million OF for the employer’s share of a retirement increase.

 

7.      Adds $2.8 million GF and $1 million OF for rent adjustments for agency rent charges for state-owned space, which increase from $15.50 per square foot to $19.50 per square foot for office space and from $6 per square foot to $7 per square foot for storage space.

 

8.      Adds $995,100 GF for state lease-purchase and privatized-lease-to-own adjustments.

 

9.      Adds $242,100 GF and $135,000 OF in human resources pro rata adjustments.

 

10.  Adds $1.8 million GF for risk management adjustments.

 

11.  Removes the requirement that OSPB report quarterly to JLBC regarding the status of the federal revenue maximization initiative.

 

Corrections

 

1.      Corrects ADE footnote to clarify that ADE (not DES) will distribute master teacher monies to the state Board of Education to distribute to the Arizona K-12 Center.

 

2.      Corrects fund sources and amounts of private provider rate increases in the Department of Corrections.

 

3.      Clarifies purpose of DES domestic violence shelter bed issue.

 

Amendments Adopted by Committee

 

·      Adopted the strike everything amendment.

 

Amendments Adopted by Committee of the Whole

 

·      Makes a technical change.

 

House Action                                                              Senate Action

APPROP         4/30/07     DPA     13-4-0-0-0             APPROP      6/18/07     DPA/SE     10-0-1-0

3rd Read           5/22/07                  31-29-0-0              3rd Read        6/18/07                        23-5-2-0

Final Read       6/19/07                  38-21-1-0

 

Signed by the Governor 6/25/07

Chapter 255

Prepared by Senate Research

June 27, 2007

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