2011 Senate Bill 177 ↩

Senate Roll Call 243: Passed

The House-Senate conference report for the 2011-2012 General Government budget, which funds a number of state departments, including some recently transferred to this budget with the creation of a new Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. This would appropriate $3.897 billion in gross spending. Of this, $724.7 million will come from the general fund, $1.726 billion from "restricted funds," or earmarked tax and fee revenue, and $768.0 million from the federal government. $958.9 million of this budget is paid out in revenue sharing to local governments, compared to $1.05 billion million the previous year, but $200 million of this is contingent on individual local governments adopting more transparency, service consolidation, employee pension reforms and increased employee health benefit cost-sharing.