2002 House Bill 5645 ↩

Senate Roll Call 801: Passed

The second House-Senate conference report for the FY 2002-2003 Family Independence Agency budget (welfare). This would appropriate $4.070 billion in adjusted gross spending (funded from all sources, including special state restricted fund and federal pass-through dollars, minus interdepartmental transfers), compared to $3.635 billion, which was the FY 2001-2002 amount enacted in 2001. Of this, $1.173 billion would come from the General Fund (funded by actual state tax revenues), compared to the current year's $1.179 billion. Note: The FY 2001-2002 figures do not include supplemental appropriations, interdepartmental program shifts, funding source shifts, or cuts made by executive order later in the fiscal year, if any. These can be substantial, and will change the appearance of year-to-year comparisons. The conference report includes a number of specific line item cuts, but states that these would be suspended if the tobacco and cigarette tax is increased. This tax increase has been approved, so the actual appropriations will be higher than the nominal line item amounts..