HB 5043 Summary

• Appropriates $45.5 million in deficiency funding from the General Fund for fiscal year 2015-2016, including $35 million for debt service, $6.2 million for early intervention services, and funding for the Chief Medical Examiner, Public Defender Services Commission, and other agencies.

• Reduces appropriations to multiple agencies by $45.5 million total, including $16 million from retired state employees health service costs, $9 million from employers social security tax, $4.5 million from higher education alternative retirement system, and reductions to departments of public health, children and families, housing, and others.

• Allows specific amounts totaling approximately $25.8 million appropriated to the Department of Transportation for pay-as-you-go projects and highway planning/research to lapse on June 30, 2016.

• Authorizes small amounts totaling approximately $78,839 from appropriations to the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Higher Education, Department of Rehabilitation Services, and Labor Department to lapse on June 30, 2016.