2002 House Bill 5646 ↩

Senate Roll Call 622: Passed

The Senate version of the FY 2002-2003 general government budget, which funds the Attorney General, Departments of Civil Rights, Civil Service, Management and Budget, State, Treasury, and Information Technology, the Executive office, and the Legislature. This would appropriate $3.014 billion in gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state "restricted" fund and federal pass-through dollars), compared to $2.684 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001, excluding any supplemental appropriations. Of this, $377.4 million would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year’s $504.8 million. Part of the decline in GF spending is due to a increased transfers totaling $77 million in transportation tax revenue to the Department of State, the Attorney General, and the Auditor General. This budget also includes $427.5 million in funding for the newly created Department of Information Technology. The new department will provide information technology services to other state departments, and its personnel and funding are to be transferred from other departments.