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§ 24-75-112.5. Appropriation Clauses – General Provisions – Legislative Declaration – Definition

The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that: The mechanism through which the general assembly commonly authorizes state agencies to spend moneys, the appropriation clause, has remained essentially unchanged for over a century; The typical appropriation clause employed prior to the 2015 regular legislative session features certain stock phrases that make ascertaining essential information […]

§ 24-75-101. Deficiency in Revenue

The following appropriations shall be appropriations of the first class and shall be first paid out of the revenue of the state against which they are chargeable: All appropriations made by the general assembly for the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state government; All appropriations made by the general assembly for the institutions […]

§ 24-75-102. When Appropriations Expended – Balance

Except as otherwise provided by law, including paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), all moneys appropriated by the general assembly may be expended or encumbered, if authorized by the controller, only in the fiscal year for which appropriated. Except as otherwise provided by law, any moneys unexpended or not encumbered from the appropriation to each […]

§ 24-75-103. Exceptions to Transfer of Balances

The provisions of section 24-75-102 shall not apply to any appropriation where, as a part of the object intended by or as preliminary to the expenditure of the appropriation, condemnation proceedings or other litigation has been commenced or where the expenditure of the money appropriated has been delayed by proceedings or litigation by third persons […]

§ 24-75-104. Gifts and Bequests to State Institutions of Higher Education – Effect

All endowments, gifts, and bequests made to any state institution of higher education, and the income therefrom, shall belong to and be used only by such institution and shall be subject to state audit. In appropriating state funds to such institution of higher education, neither principal nor interest of such gifts shall be used to […]

§ 24-75-105. Transfers Required to Implement Conditional and Centralized Appropriations – Repeal

Transfers of appropriations which are authorized in the 1990-91 and subsequent general appropriation acts and are required to implement appropriations conditioned on the distribution of the appropriation among, or the transfer of the appropriation between, departments, agencies, or programs, including centralized appropriations, are expressly authorized. This section is repealed, effective September 1, 2025. Source: L. […]

§ 24-75-106. Transfers Between Departments of Health Care Policy and Financing and Human Services for Materially Similar Items of Appropriation for Medicaid Programs – Limitation – Repeal

Notwithstanding the effect of the “M” provision in the 1990-91 and subsequent general appropriation acts, the governor may transfer unlimited amounts of general fund appropriations and reappropriated funds to and from the departments of health care policy and financing and human services when required by changes from the appropriated levels in the amount of medicaid […]