Changes to Money in the Capital Construction Fund

Joint Budget Committee. Under current law, all unappropriated balances in the capital construction fund (fund) and in the information technology capital account, a special account within the fund, (IT subaccount) at the close of any fiscal year must remain in the fund or the IT subaccount, respectively, and do not revert to the general fund. Additionally, all unexpended or unencumbered money from an appropriation from the fund or the IT subaccount to a state agency or state institution of higher education reverts to the fund or the IT subaccount, as applicable, at the end of the period for which the money is appropriated.

For state fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2025, the bill requires that the state treasurer transfer any unappropriated balances in the fund or the IT subaccount or any otherwise unexpended and unencumbered money remaining in the fund or the IT subaccount at the end of a fiscal year to the general fund. Further, the bill requires that, for state fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2025, all unexpended or unencumbered money from an appropriation from the fund or the IT subaccount to a state agency or state institution of higher education reverts to the general fund at the end of the period for which the money is appropriated.

The bill also requires that the following transfers be made by the state treasurer on July 1, 2025:

• $129,498,033 $120,191,010 from the general fund to the fund;
• $500,000 from the general fund exempt account of the general fund to the fund;
• $20,557,433 from the general fund to the IT subaccount; and
• $3,230,000 from the marijuana tax cash fund to the IT subaccount.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)