HR29: HR29 General Assembly; appropriation of funds received from certain legal judgments or settlements; provide - CA

25 LC 56 0340S The House Committee on Appropriations offers the following substitute to HR 29: A RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide for the appropriation of funds1 received from certain legal judgments or settlements; to revise the disposition of excess,2 changed, or unanticipated federal funding allocated to the stat e; to provide for related3 matters; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for4 other purposes.5 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:6 SECTION 1.7 Article III, Section IX, Paragraph II of the Constitution is amended by revising subparagraph8 (b) as follows:9 "(b)(1) The General Assembly shall annually appropriate those state and federal funds10 necessary to operate all the various departments and agencies. The General Assembly11 shall appropriate all moneys and funds derived from any legal judgments awarded to the12 state on or after January 1, 2027, and any legal settlements entered into by the state or on13 its behalf on or after January 1, 2027.14 (2) To the extent that federal funds received by the state for an y program, project,15 activity, purpose, or expenditure are changed by federal authority or exceed the amount16 or amounts appropriated in the general appropriations Act or supplementary appropriation17 H. R. 29 (SUB) - 1 - 25 LC 56 0340S appropriations Act or Acts, or are not anticipated, such excess, changed, or unanticipated18 federal funds in excess of $10 million shall be continually appropriated by the General19 Assembly through one or more methods or manners that shall be prescribed by general20 law or held in the state treasury to be appropriated by the Gen eral Assembly through a21 supplementary appropriations Act or Acts. are hereby continually appropriated for the22 purposes authorized and directed by the federal government in making the grant. In those23 instances where the conditions under which the federal funds have been made available24 do not provide otherwise, federal funds shall first be used to replace state funds that were25 appropriated to supplant federal funds in the same state fiscal year.26 (3) The fiscal year of the state shall commence on the first day of July of each year and27 terminate on the thirtieth of June following."28 SECTION 2.29 The above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be publi shed and submitted as30 provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot submitting the31 above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following:32 "( ) YES33 ( ) NO34 35 36 Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to ensure that all proceeds from legal judgments or settlements and unanticipated changes t o federal funding in excess of $10 million are appropriated by the Genera l Assembly?" All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "Yes."37 All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "No." If38 such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall39 become a part of the Constitution of this state.40 H. R. 29 (SUB) - 2 -