Senate Bill 13 USURPS JOB DEVELOPMENT FUNDS — LEAVING NO HOPE FOR ECON. DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AREAS
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Total General Fund Availability 18,940,011,278
Adjustments to Availability: Senate Bill 897Availability
Improve Tax and Debt Collection Process 3,000,000
Modernize Sales Tax on Accommodations 1,700,000
Department of Revenue Settlement Initiative 110,000,000
Disproportionate Share 35,000,000
Increase Justice and Public Safety Fees 13,930,670
Transfer from the Health and Wellness Trust Fund 17,045,800
Transfer from Wildlife Resources Commission 8,000,000
Divert Funds from Scrap Tire Disposal Account 2,500,000
Divert Funds from White Goods Fund 1,200,000
Transfer from Mercury Pollution Prevention Fund 2,250,000
Transfer from Bladen Lakes Special Fund 150,000
Transfer from DACS – N.C. State Fair 1,000,000
Transfer from ECU Magnetic Resonance Imaging Lease and Equipment
Fund 1,000,000
Transfer from Motorfleet Internal Services Fund 14,000,000
Transfer from Golden LEAF Funds 67,563,760
Transfer from Tobacco Trust Fund 2,800,000
Information Technology Fund 1,000,000
Information Technology Internal Service Fund 7,586,800
ITS Wireless Fund 5,000,000 (911)
Correction Enterprise Fund 3,000,000
One North Carolina Fund 5,208,333
Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (various 50
special funds) 1,500,000
Farmland Preservation Trust Fund 1,800,000
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Fund 950,000
Industrial Development Utility 2,500,000
Development Investment Grants (JDIG) 3,000,000
SWCCREP/Expansion 500,000
Aquariums Special Fund 1,500,000
Parks and Recreation Trust Fund 8,500,000
Industrial Commission – IT Projects Fund 1,000,000
E-Commerce Reserve 4,630,891
ADD 157,456,866
REVERSIONS TO THE GENERAL FUND 18
SECTION 3.1.(a) Effective June 30, 2011, the following amounts are reverted to the General Fund:
Code Code Description 22
11000 1900 General Assembly Reserve 1,901,522
13085 1900 Department of Insurance Reserve 1,150,693
SECTION 3.1.(b) G.S. 143C-1-2(b) does not apply to the reversion from the 25 General Assembly Reserve in subsection (a) of this section.
TRANSFER GOLDEN LEAF FUNDS
SECTION 4.(a) Pursuant to Section 2(b) of S.L. 1999-2, the fifty percent (50%) of 29 the 2011 annual installment payment to the North Carolina State Specific Account that would have been transferred to The Golden L.E.A.F. (Long-Term Economic Advancement Foundation), Inc., is transferred to a General Fund account within the Settlement Reserve Fund to be used to support General Fund appropriations for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The Attorney General shall take all necessary actions to notify the court in the action entitled State of North Carolina v. Philip Morris Incorporated, et al., 98 CVS 14377, in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Wake County, North Carolina, and the administrators of the State Specific Account established under the Master Settlement Agreement of this action by the General Assembly redirecting the payment set forth in this section.
SECTION 4.(b) A General Fund Account is established in the Settlement Reserve Fund. In 2011, the portion of the Master Settlement Agreement payment identified in Section 40 6(1) of S.L. 1999-2 shall be credited to the General Fund Account. The State Controller shall transfer all funds in the General Fund Account to the General Fund.
SECTION 4.(c) Funds transferred from the General Fund Account to the General 43 Fund shall be deposited in Nontax Budget Code 19978 (Intrastate Transfers) to support General 44 Fund appropriations for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
TRANSFER HEALTH AND WELLNESS TRUST FUNDS
SECTION 5. Section 2.2(i) of S.L. 2009-451, as rewritten by Section 2.2(f) of S.L. 48 2010-31, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 2.2.(i) Notwithstanding G.S. 143C-9-3, of the funds credited to the Health 50 Trust Account, the sum of ten million three hundred ninety-seven thousand dollars ($10,397,000)twenty-two million forty-five thousand eight hundred dollars ($22,045,800) that 1 would otherwise be deposited in the Fund Reserve shall be transferred from the Department of 2 State Treasurer, Budget Code 23460 (Health and Wellness Trust Fund), to the State Controller 3 to be deposited in Nontax Budget Code 19978 (Intrastate Transfers) to support General Fund 4 appropriations for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 fiscal years. These funds shall be 5transferred on or after April 30, 2010."
TRANSFER TOBACCO TRUST FUNDS
SECTION 6. Section 2.2(h) of S.L. 2009-451, as rewritten by Section 2.2(i) of S.L. 9 2010-31, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 2.2.(h) Notwithstanding G.S. 143C-9-3, of the funds credited to the Tobacco 11 Trust, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000)seven million eight hundred thousand dollars 12 ($7,800,000) shall be transferred from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 13 Budget Code 23703 (Tobacco Trust Fund), to the State Controller to be deposited in Nontax 14 Budget Code 19978 (Intrastate Transfers) to support General Fund appropriations for the 15 2010-2011 fiscal year. These funds shall be transferred on or after April 30, 2011."
TRANSFER FROM THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION – IT FUND
SECTION 6.1. Section 14.15 of S.L. 2009-451 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 14.15. The For the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the North Carolina Industrial 20 Commission may retain the additional revenue generated as a result of an increase in the fee 21 charged to parties for the filing of compromised settlements. All over realized receipts. These 22 funds shall be used for the purpose of replacing existing computer hardware and software used 23 for the operations of the Commission. These funds may also be used to prepare any assessment 24 of hardware and software needs prior to purchase and to develop and administer the needed 25 databases and new Electronic Case Management System, including the establishment of two 26 time-limited positions for application development and support and mainframe migration. The 27 Commission may not retain any fees under this section unless they are in excess of the former 28 two-hundred-dollar ($200.00) fee charged by the Commission for filing a compromised 29 settlement."