LD 1614
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LR 1999
Item 1

 
The General Fund appropriation for each fiscal year of a
fiscal biennium and the next fiscal biennium may not exceed the
adjusted General Fund appropriation of the previous fiscal year,
multiplied by one plus the long-term growth rate limitation as
defined in section 1710-F, subsection 4.

 
§1525.__General Fund transfers to stabilization fund

 
General Fund revenues and other available resources, as
recommended by the Revenue Forecasting Committee established in
section 1710-E and authorized in accordance with chapter 151-B,
that exceed the General Fund appropriation limitation established
by section 1524 must be transferred to the Retirement Allowance
Fund established in section 17251 until the cumulative total of
such transfers is $102,474,904, which is the General Fund share
of the $123,075,425 reduction for the fiscal year 2004-05
biennium.__Subsequent transfers of the excess of revenue and
other available resources over the appropriation limitation must
be made to the stabilization fund.__The State Controller, at the
close of each fiscal year, shall transfer the available balance
remaining in the General Fund to the stabilization fund after all
legally required transfers, commitments, deductions or other
designated uses.

 
§1526.__Excess General Fund revenues

 
1.__Reserve unappropriated surplus.__The State Controller
shall, as the first priority at the close of each fiscal year,
reserve from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund an
amount equal to the excess of total General Fund revenues
received over accepted estimates in that fiscal year and transfer
that amount at the beginning of the next fiscal year as follows:

 
A.__Fifty percent to the stabilization fund;

 
B.__Twenty-five percent to the Retirement Allowance Fund
established in section 17251;

 
C.__Fifteen percent to the Reserve for General Fund
Operating Capital under section 1511; and

 
D.__Ten percent to the Capital Construction and Improvements
Reserve Fund established in section 1516-A.

 
2.__Transfer unappropriated surplus.__At the close of each
fiscal year, the State Controller shall transfer from the
unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the stabilization
fund:


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