2002 Senate Bill 1106 ↩

Senate Roll Call 302: Passed

The Senate version of the FY 2002-2003 Department of Natural Resources (DNR) budget. This appropriates $253.9 million in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $253.4 million, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $47.4 million will come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $55.9 million. General Fund expenditure reductions over the past two years have been offset to some degree by a funding source shift of $4.7 million from restricted funds (license fees, trust funds, etc.). The budget also reflects a $15.5 million transfer ($2.7 million GF) to the new Department of Information Technology. The Senate added money for the DNR to pay its property taxes on some 900,000 acres of state land.