Bill Text: NJ S3101 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Makes fiscal year 2015 State supplemental appropriations, reduces State appropriations and amends language provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-26 - Approved P.L.2015, c.62. [S3101 Detail]
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An Act amending and supplementing the Fiscal Year 2015 annual appropriations act, P.L.2014, c.14.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The following items in section 1 of P.L.2014, c.14, the fiscal year 2015 appropriations act, are amended to read as follows:
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82 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 36 Higher Educational Services GRANTS-IN-AID |
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49-2155 |
Miscellaneous Higher Education Programs [$98,571,000] |
$83,615,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, Higher Educational Services ........................................... [$100,808,000] |
$85,852,000 |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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Higher Education Facilities Trust Fund - Debt Service ............ ..........................[($21,822,000)] |
($6,866,000) |
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Department of the Treasury, Total State Appropriation ............ .................................................... [$1,683,534,000] |
$1,668,578,000 |
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DEBT SERVICE 82 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 70 Government Direction, Management, and Control 76 Management and Administration |
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99-2000 |
Interest on Bonds ..................................... [$98,965,000] |
$76,965,000 |
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Total Debt Service Appropriation, Department of the Treasury ............................... [$370,134,000] |
$348,134,000 |
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Debt Service: |
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Special Purpose: |
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Interest: |
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Payments on Future Bond Sales ...... ..................... [($24,750,000)] |
($2,750,000) |
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Total Debt Service Appropriation, Department of the Treasury .. ....................................................... [$370,134,000] |
$348,134,000 |
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Total Appropriation, Debt Service ................. [$404,832,000] |
$382,832,000 |
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Total Appropriation, All State Funds ......... [$32,537,765,000] |
$32,500,809,000 |
2. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2014, c.14, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2015, there are appropriated out of the General Fund the following sums for the purposes specified:
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16 DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 50 Economic Planning, Development, and Security 55 Social Services Programs DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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01-1610 |
Child Protection and Permanency ............................... |
$1,335,000 |
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Total Direct State Services Appropriation, Social Services Programs ............................... |
$1,335,000 |
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Direct State Services: |
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Personal Services: |
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Salaries and Wages .......................... |
($1,335,000) |
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GRANTS-IN-AID |
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01-1610 |
Child Protection and Permanency .................................... |
$605,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, Social Services Programs ............................... |
$605,000 |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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Subsidized Adoption ........................... |
($605,000) |
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Department of Children and Families, Total State Appropriation .. |
$1,940,000 |
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42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 44 Site Remediation and Waste Management DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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27-4815 |
Remediation Management and Response ............................. |
$9,000,000 |
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Total Direct State Services Appropriation, Site Remediation and Waste Management ..................... |
$9,000,000 |
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Direct State Services: |
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Special Purpose: |
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Hazardous Discharge Site Cleanup Fund - Responsible Party ................. |
($9,000,000) |
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Department of Environmental Protection, Total State Appropriation ............................................... |
$9,000,000 |
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54 DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 32 Operation and Support of Educational Institutions 7601 Community Programs GRANTS-IN-AID |
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01-7601 |
Purchased Residential Care ................................................... |
$68,609,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, Community Programs ............................................. |
$68,609,000
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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Group Homes ................................ |
($68,609,000) |
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Department of Human Services, Total State Appropriation .......... |
$68,609,000 |
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66 DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY 10 Public Safety and Criminal Justice 12 Law Enforcement DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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06-1200 |
State Police Operations .................................................... |
$5,500,000 |
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Total Direct State Services Appropriation, Law Enforcement ........................................ |
$5,500,000 |
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Direct State Services: |
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Personal Services: |
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Salaries and Wages .......................... |
($5,500,000) |
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80 Special Government Services 82 Protection of Citizens' Rights DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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14-1310 |
Consumer Affairs .................................................................. |
$1,600,000 |
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Total Direct State Services Appropriation, Protection of Citizens' Rights ......................... |
$1,600,000 |
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Direct State Services: |
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Special Purpose: |
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Securities Enforcement Fund .............. |
($1,600,000) |
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Department of Law and Public Safety, Total State Appropriation ................................................ |
$7,100,000 |
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94 INTERDEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTS 70 Government Direction, Management, and Control 74 General Government Services 9410 Employee Benefits DIRECT STATE SERVICES |
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03-9410 |
Employee Benefits ............................................................ |
$69,970,000 |
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Total Direct State Services Appropriation, Employee Benefits ........................................... |
$69,970,000 |
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Direct State Services: |
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Special Purpose: |
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03 |
Public Employees' Retirement System |
($49,765,000) |
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03
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Police and Firemen's Retirement System ................................... |
(11,315,000) |
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Police and Firemen's Retirement System (P.L.1979, c.109) ................. |
(327,000) |
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03 |
State Police Retirement System ......... |
(5,867,000) |
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03 |
Judicial Retirement System ............. |
(2,388,000) |
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03
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Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund ...................................... |
(308,000) |
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GRANTS-IN-AID |
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03-9410 |
Employee Benefits ............................................................ |
$8,164,000 |
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Total Grants-in-Aid Appropriation, Employee Benefits ........................................... |
$8,164,000 |
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Grants-in-Aid: |
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Special Purpose: |
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03 |
Public Employees' Retirement System |
($7,237,000) |
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03
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Police and Firemen's Retirement System ................................... |
(863,000) |
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03
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Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund ...................................... |
(64,000) |
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Interdepartmental Accounts, Total State Appropriation ............... |
$78,134,000 |
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Total Appropriation, General Fund ....................................... |
$164,783,000 |
3. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2014, c.14, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2015, there are appropriated out of the Property Tax Relief Fund the following sums for the purposes specified:
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34 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 34 Educational Support Services STATE AID |
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39-5094 |
Teachers' Pension and Annuity Assistance .................. |
$124,032,000 |
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Total State Aid Appropriation, Educational Support Services .......................................... |
$124,032,000 |
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(From Property Tax Relief Fund . |
$124,032,000) |
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State Aid: |
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Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund (PTRF) .............................. |
($124,032,000) |
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Department of Education, Total State Appropriation .................. |
$124,032,000 |
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82 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 36 Higher Educational Services STATE AID |
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48-2155 |
Aid to County Colleges .......................................... |
$19,000 |
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Total State Aid Appropriation, Higher Educational Services ..................................................... |
$19,000 |
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(From Property Tax Relief Fund . |
$19,000) |
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State Aid: |
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Employer Contributions - Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund (PTRF) ..... |
($19,000) |
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70 Government Direction, Management, and Control 75 State Subsidies and Financial Aid STATE AID |
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35-2078 |
Police and Firemen's Retirement System ....................... |
$9,815,000 |
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Total State Aid Appropriation, State Subsidies and Financial Aid ......................................... |
$9,815,000 |
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(From Property Tax Relief Fund . |
$9,815,000) |
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Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PTRF) ..................................... |
($5,775,000) |
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Police and Firemen's Retirement System (P.L.1979, c.109) (PTRF) ....... |
(4,040,000) |
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Department of the Treasury, Total State Appropriation... ........... |
$9,834,000 |
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Total Appropriation, Property Tax Relief Fund ...................... |
$133,866,000 |
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Total Appropriation, All State Funds .................................... |
$298,649,000 |
4. The following language provisions in section 1 of P.L.2014, c.14, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2015, are amended to read as follows:
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42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION |
There is appropriated to the Department of Environmental Protection from the "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund," established pursuant to section 18 of the "Port of New Jersey Revitalization, Dredging, Environmental Cleanup, Lake Restoration and Delaware Bay Area Economic Development Bond Act of 1996," P.L.1996, c.70, an amount not to exceed $10,000,000, as determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, to provide funding to the Department of Transportation for financing the cost of dredging navigation channels not located in the port region, as provided for in section 7 of P.L.1996, c.70, subject to the following [conditions] condition: the Department of Environmental Protection shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Transportation to provide for the terms and conditions pursuant to which the bond monies shall be spent, including a list of the channels to be dredged [; and any monies appropriated pursuant to this provision that are not expended for the purposes set forth in this provision shall be returned for deposit into the "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund."].
(cf: P.L.2014, c.14, s.1)
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46 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH |
[Consistent with] Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.2005, c.237, [$40,000,000] $25,000,000 from the surcharge on each general hospital and each specialty heart hospital is appropriated to fund federally qualified health centers and $15,000,000 is appropriated to the General Fund as general revenue. Any unexpended balance at the end of the preceding fiscal year in the Health Care Subsidy Fund received through the hospital and other health care initiatives account during the preceding fiscal year is appropriated for payments to federally qualified health centers.
(cf: P.L.2014, c.14, s.1)
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78 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 60 Transportation Programs 61 State and Local Highway Facilities CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION |
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, in the event that some of the amounts hereinabove appropriated are not required to pay amounts due under the State contract between the State Treasurer and the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority for the Prior Bonds as the result of the receipt of federal subsidies for debt service on the Prior Bonds, or other obligations issued by the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority in connection with the Prior Bonds the amount hereinabove appropriated from the sales and use tax revenues in clause (iii) of the first paragraph above shall be reduced by such corresponding amount, except if the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting determines that such amounts should be carried forward to the following fiscal year.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, in the event that some of the amounts hereinabove appropriated are not required to pay amounts due under the State contract between the State Treasurer and the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority for the Prior Bonds or the State contract between the State Treasurer and the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority for the Transportation Program Bonds as the result of refundings, restructurings, lowered interest rates, or any other action which reduces the amounts required to make the payments under such State contracts, the amount hereinabove appropriated from the sales and use tax revenues in clause (iii) of the first paragraph above for the Transportation Program Bonds or the Prior Bonds shall be reduced by such corresponding amounts, except if the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting determines that such amounts should be carried forward to the following fiscal year.
(cf: P.L.2014, c.14, s.1)
5. The following language provision is added to the General Provisions of P.L.2014, c.14, the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2015:
87. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $39,000,000 from the Clean Energy Fund for transfer to the General Fund as State revenue, subject to the approval of the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting.
6. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill amends and supplements the Fiscal Year 2015 appropriations act. It makes State appropriations totaling $298,649,000, reduces previously enacted appropriations by $36,956,000, and amends and supplements various language provisions affecting appropriations and revenues.
Supplemental Appropriations of State Funds
· $212,000,000 in combined Direct State Services, Grants-In-Aid, and State Aid appropriations to the Department of Education, Department of the Treasury, and Interdepartmental Accounts for defined benefit pensions in the Judicial Retirement System, Police and Firemen's Retirement System, Public Employees' Retirement System, State Police Retirement System, and the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund to further offset the FY 2015 full actuarially recommended contribution;
· $68,609,000 Grants-In-Aid appropriation to the Department of Human Services for Group Homes to cover: a) increased community placement costs due to the closing of the North Jersey Developmental Center on July 1, 2014 and the Woodbridge Developmental Center on January 1, 2015, and b) lower than expected federal Community Care Waiver revenue;
· $9,000,000 Direct State Services appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection for the Hazardous Discharge Site Cleanup Fund to cover operating costs;
· $5,500,000 Direct State Services appropriation to the Department of Law and Public Safety to cover additional State Police Operations salary costs;
· $1,600,000 Direct State Services appropriation to the Securities Enforcement Fund in the Department of Law and Public Safety to pay for operating costs after lower than expected revenues;
· $1,335,000 Direct State Services appropriation to the Department of Children and Families for Child Protection and Permanency Services to cover additional salary costs; and
· $605,000 Grants-in Aid appropriation to the Department of Children and Families for Child Protection and Permanency Services to cover increased costs attributable to a higher number of child placements in adoptive homes than originally projected;
Amendments and Supplements to Language Provisions
· A Department of Environmental Protection language revision permits the carryforward into FY 2016 of the amounts that remain unexpended of the up to $10,000,000 in bond funds that the FY 2015 appropriations act allocated from the "1996 Dredging and Containment Facility Fund" to the Department of Transportation to fund the dredging of navigation channels;
· A Department of Health language revision transfers $15,000,000 that was originally appropriated for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in the Health Care Subsidy Fund to the General Fund for general State use. The expansion of the NJ FamilyCare program and the availability of tax credits for privately purchased insurance resulted in a larger decrease in uninsured FQHC visits than originally anticipated. Combined with carryforward resources, the revised appropriation provides total FQHC funding of $30,000,000;
· Two Department of Transportation language revisions allow surplus balances in Transportation Trust Fund Subaccounts for debt service to carry forward. Both the FY 2016 appropriation and carryforward amount are needed to satisfy FY 2016 debt service costs; and
· A new general language provision permits the transfer of up to $39,000,000 in surplus balances from the Clean Energy Fund to the General Fund for general State use.
Reductions in Previously Enacted Appropriations
· $22,000,000 in Department of the Treasury Debt Service funding for Payments on Future Bond Sales due to the making of bond payments out of premium savings achieved as part of a December 2014 bond issuance; and
· $14,956,000 in Department of the Treasury funding for Higher Education Facilities Trust Fund - Debt Service due to the making of bond payments out of premium savings achieved as part of a September 2014 bond issuance.
Makes fiscal year 2015 State supplemental appropriations, reduces State appropriations and amends language provisions.
