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HR 29: General Assembly; appropriation of funds received from certain legal judgments or settlements; provide - CA

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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 funds received from certain legal judgments or settlements; to revise the disposition of excess, changed, or unanticipated federal funding allocated to the state; to provide for related matters; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Article III, Section IX, Paragraph II of the Constitution is amended by revising subparagraph

(b) as follows:

"(b)(1) The General Assembly shall annually appropriate those state and federal funds necessary to operate all the various departments and agencies. The General Assembly shall appropriate all moneys and funds derived from any legal judgments awarded to the state on or after January 1, 2027, and any legal settlements entered into by the state or on its behalf on or after January 1, 2027.

(2) To the extent that federal funds received by the state for any program, project, activity, purpose, or expenditure are changed by federal authority or exceed the amount or amounts appropriated in the general appropriations Act or supplementary ~~appropriation~~ appropriations Act or Acts, or are not anticipated, such excess, changed, or unanticipated federal funds in excess of $10 million shall be continually appropriated by the General Assembly through one or more methods or manners that shall be prescribed by general law or held in the state treasury to be appropriated by the General Assembly through a supplementary appropriations Act or Acts. are hereby continually appropriated for the purposes authorized and directed by the federal government in making the grant. In those instances where the conditions under which the federal funds have been made available do not provide otherwise, federal funds shall first be used to replace state funds that were appropriated to supplant federal funds in the same state fiscal year. (3) The fiscal year of the state shall commence on the first day of July of each year and terminate on the thirtieth of June following."

SECTION 2.

The above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be published and submitted as provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following: "( ) YES Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to ensure that all proceeds ( ) NO from legal judgments or settlements and unanticipated changes to federal funding in excess of $10 million are appropriated by the General Assembly?"

All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "Yes." All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "No." If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.