SS/SCS/HS/HCS/HB 1906 - This act provides that in any fiscal year where a state fund has an excess unobligated cash balance, the legislature may transfer all or part of the balance to general revenue.

Beginning in fiscal year 2004, the House Budget Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee shall review the cash balance of all state funds. Any balance in a dedicated fund must be used before additional general revenue appropriations.

Certain funds are exempt from transfer: 1. constitutional funds; 2. statutory funds approved by the voters; 3. federal funds; 4. funds used to support education; 5. funds created specifically to receive donations and bequests; 6. funds that if transferred would violate the terms of an existing trust;

The Commissioner of Administration must develop a methodology to charge state funds for the cost of state services. Reimbursement for state services is subject to appropriation and must be deposited in the general revenue fund. Federal funds are exempted from the cost of state services.

This act also adds language preventing any public funds from being expended, paid or granted to or on behalf of an existing or proposed health and social services program to directly or indirectly subsidize abortion services or human cloning projects. The act also requires an independent audit every three years of any entity that receives public funds.

The act also makes it unlawful for any person or entity to knowingly place for shipment human fetal parts by means of common carrier or delivery service without disclosing to the carrier or delivery service that the contents of the item shipped are human fetal parts, and without prominently marking the outside of the package or container in a manner visible to the shipper and its employees that the package or container contains human fetal parts.

The act contains an emergency clause and penalty provisions.

The provisions of this act relating to transfers of balances of state funds expire one year after the effective date of the act.
JEFF CRAVER