This legislation is the state's supplemental budget for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2013.

This legislation is the state's budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.

This legislation, one of ACCG's top priorities, seeks to halt the now-common state practice of redirecting fees from their designated purposes to the state's general fund for other uses.  If fees for the Solid Waste Trust Fund, Hazardous Waste Trust Fund, Indigent Defense, Peace Officers and Prosecutors Training Fund and teen driver's education are not appropriated for their intended use, the fees will be reduced or eliminated, proportionate to the amount that is redirected. 

 

While the Senate once again halted this legislation, HB 276 did pass both chambers, applying the above fee-reduction mechanism to the Hazardous and Solid Waste Trust Funds.    

 

Click here for ACCG's HB 127 Press Release

 

Click here for ACCG's sectional summary of HB 127

 

Click here for ACCG's implementation timeline for HB 127        

This legislation requires additional information to be included in the state budget report regarding tax expenditures. When possible, the tax expenditure report will include a description of the objective of the tax expenditure, information that shows whether the tax expenditure is meeting it's intended purpose, an analysis of the tax expenditure's effect in the administration of the tax system and an analysis of the people, companies or other entities that directly benefit from the tax expenditure.

This bill requires cities and counties to calculate the cost of governmental affairs activities, separately itemize such costs on property tax bills, and provide each taxpayer with the option of deducting the amount from their property tax bill.

This legislation creates a Joint Select Committee on Budget Dependence on Federal Funding. The committee will study the percentage of the state budget funded by federal money, as well as the impact of federal fiscal policy reducing or eliminating federal funding for state governments.