HB 1081 Summary

• Establishes maximum of 7 regular employees for the State Board of Election Commissioners for fiscal year 2019-2020, including positions ranging from Director (Grade GS12) to Election Coordinators (Grade GS06)

• Appropriates $621,127 from the Miscellaneous Agencies Fund Account for personal services and operating expenses, including $380,694 for regular salaries, $122,623 for personal services matching, and $109,810 for maintenance and general operations

• Appropriates $6,340,000 from the Miscellaneous Agencies Fund Account for election expenses to cover costs of preferential primary elections, general primary elections, nonpartisan general elections, and statewide special elections

• Appropriates $1,600,000 from the Nonpartisan Filing Fee Fund for nonpartisan general election expenses

• Permits unexpended election expense balances to carry forward to the next fiscal year and authorizes emergency fund transfers from the Budget Stabilization Trust Fund if additional election funding is needed, with unused transferred funds returned to that account at fiscal year end