FISCAL NOTE

House Bill 453 as substituted and reported by the Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund makes supplemental appropriations from the State General Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, in the following amounts to the following entities: (1) $1,000,000 to the Alabama Tourism Department; (2) $14,000,000 to the Board of Pardons and Paroles; (3) $633,985 to the Supreme Court; (4) $4,500,000 to the Office of Information Technology; (5) $9,200,000 to the Department of Public Health, of which $7,500,000 shall be used for Coronavirus preparedness and response activities, $1,200,000 shall be used for workforce development schools for in-demand medical professionals with the Huntsville Hospital Health System and $500,000 shall be used for one-time capital expenses for the USA Women's and Children's Hospital; (6) $460,000 to the Judicial Inquiry Commission; (7) $304,000 to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences; (8) $1,200,000 to the Department of Mental Health; and (9) $50,000 to the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs.

This bill also makes a supplemental appropriation from the following funds to the following entities for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021: (1) $150,000 from the State Board of Dietetics/Nutrition Fund to the Alabama State Board of Examiners for Dietetics/Nutrition Practice; (2) $12,000,000 from federal funds appropriated by the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (3) $8,044,783 from the Litigation Support Fund to the Office of the Attorney General; and (4) up to $125,000,000 in federal funds from the Alabama Homeowner Assistance Fund to the Department of Finance to administer the Homeowner Assistance Program established by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This bill also clarifies that any federal funds appropriated to the Department of Finance from the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, must be distributed to nonentitlement units of Local Government within 30 days after the state receives the funds.

Additionally, this bill amends Section 10 of Act 2020-168, the General Fund Appropriations Act for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, to require any Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Funds received by the State to be appropriated in one or more independent supplemental appropriation bills.