2022 Senate Bill 831

Appropriations: General Government

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 20, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Roger Victory (R-30)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-23 General Government budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 3, 2022

Amendment offered

To authorize payments to some local governments to accommodate recent revisions to the property tax levied on businesses based on the value of their tools and equipment, which is called the “personal property tax”.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-18)

To appropriate $500 million for stipends the state would give to certain pandemic-related "frontline workers" yet to be defined.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-3)

To authorize $10 million for bonuses to municipal firefighters.

The amendment failed 16 to 19 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Betty Alexander (D-5)

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-29)

To add $60 million federal dollars for "paramedic training grants".

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-11)

To add more Attorney General spending.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23)

To authorize giving $5 million in volunteer firefighter tax credits.

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Passed in the Senate 22 to 13 (details)

The Senate version of the General Government budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2022, which funds the legislature; the executive office; Attorney General; Secretary of State; Treasury Department; Department of Civil Rights; the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget; the Department of Talent and Economic Development; and various other state agencies. This would appropriate $6.351 billion in gross spending, of which $44.6 million is federal money.

Received in the House

May 4, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 18, 2022

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises many details, but does not change its substance.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 58 to 48 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

Received in the Senate

May 19, 2022

Failed in the Senate 0 to 34 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Received in the House

May 24, 2022