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68th Legislature 2023 HB 4.1
1 HOUSE BILL NO. 4
2 INTRODUCED BY L. JONES
3 BY REQUEST OF THE OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PROGRAM PLANNING
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5 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT APPROPRIATING MONEY THAT WOULD USUALLY BE
6 APPROPRIATED BY BUDGET AMENDMENT TO VARIOUS STATE AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
7 ENDING JUNE 30, 2023; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS CONTINUE INTO STATE AND
8 FEDERAL FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.”
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10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
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12 NEW SECTION. Section 1. Time limits. The appropriations contained in [section 2] are intended to
13 provide necessary expenditures for the years for which the appropriations are made. The unspent balance of
14 an appropriation reverts to the fund from which it was appropriated on conclusion of the final fiscal year for
15 which its expenditures are authorized by [sections 1 and 2].
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17 NEW SECTION. Section 2. Appropriations. The following money is appropriated, subject to the
18 terms and conditions of [sections 1 and 2]:
19 Agency and Program
20 Judiciary
21 Supreme Court Operations
22 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the adult drug court and
23 veterans treatment court discretionary grant program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
24 Governor's Office
25 Office of Budget and Program Planning
26 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for coronavirus state and local fiscal
27 recovery funds for non-entitlement units of local government, for local water and sewer infrastructure grants, for
28 communication projects related to broadband infrastructure, for economic transformation and stabilization
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1 grants and workforce development grants, for nursing home and hospital-based swing bed payments and
2 provider rate study, for state capital projects, for state capital projects administrative costs, and for assistance to
3 nonpublic schools is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
4 Secretary of State
5 Business and Government Services
6 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Help America Vote Act is
7 authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
8 Office of Public Instruction
9 State Level Activities
10 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act
11 elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
12 Local Education Activities
13 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the American Rescue Plan Act
14 elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
15 Department of Justice
16 Legal Services Division
17 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescription drug prevention is
18 authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
19 Montana Highway Patrol
20 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for high intensity drug trafficking
21 areas is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
22 Division of Criminal Investigations
23 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for high intensity drug trafficking
24 areas is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
25 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the cooperative disability
26 investigations unit and for the support for the Adam Walsh Act implementation grant program is authorized to
27 continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
28 Board of Crime Control
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1 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the enhanced training and
2 services to end abuse in later life program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
3 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for delinquency prevention
4 programs is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
5 Montana Arts Council
6 Promotion of the Arts
7 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the promotion of the arts
8 partnership agreements is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
9 Montana State Library
10 Statewide Library Resources
11 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for implementing the post-delisting
12 monitoring plan for Howellia aquatilis is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
13 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the citizen botany pilot study, for
14 the citizen botany program, for the Montana natural heritage program, for the North American bat monitoring
15 program, for creating improved conservation planning through development, archiving, and distribution of
16 geographic information systems in the state, for managing current and comprehensive biodiversity information
17 and for species surveys, for the Custer Gallatin national forest raptor survey and monitoring, for the state library
18 supplemental award, and for species surveys and monitoring is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year
19 2025.
20 Montana Historical Society
21 Administration Program
22 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for documenting Montana's Chinese
23 American historic sites is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
24 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for a new Montana heritage center
25 is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
26 Historic Preservation Program
27 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for documenting Montana's Chinese
28 American historic sites is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
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1 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for data sharing is authorized to
2 continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
3 Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
4 Enforcement Division
5 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for Jefferson division travel plan
6 monitoring is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
7 Wildlife Division
8 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Madison valley pronghorn
9 movements study, for expanding walk-in game bird hunting access, for the forest legacy program administration
10 funding, for pronghorn movement and population ecology, for ungulate movements and spatial ecology, and for
11 the elk recreation study is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
12 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for studying the effects of grazing
13 management on invertebrates, songbirds, and sage grouse is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year
14 2024.
15 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the upper Yellowstone
16 pronghorn movement and population ecology, for implementation of prairie pothole joint venture activities, for
17 elk habitat management phase one, and for elk habitat management is authorized to continue into state fiscal
18 year 2025.
19 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Wood Bottom habitat
20 enhancement management plan, for grizzly bear management assistance, for cooperative weed management,
21 for evaluating habitat carnivore abundance and elk vital rates in Pilgrim Creek, and for habitat conservation
22 leases is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
23 Parks and Outdoor Recreation Division
24 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Council Grove sign is
25 authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
26 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Smith River corridor
27 management is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
28 Capital Outlay
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1 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the upper Ruby wildlife habitat
2 improvement project and for the north hills rattlesnake wildlife habitat improvement project is authorized to
3 continue into state fiscal year 2024.
4 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Chief Plenty Coups state
5 park and national landmark preservation is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
6 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for preliminary work to improve
7 winter habitat for arctic grayling in upper Red Rock Lake is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
8 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for habitat conservation leases is
9 authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
10 Communication and Education Division
11 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for aquatic invasive species
12 prevention and education is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
13 Administration
14 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for wildlife surveys on the Flathead
15 Indian reservation is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
16 Department of Environmental Quality
17 Water Quality Division
18 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Clean Water Act section 106
19 grant and for the 2019 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
20 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 nonpoint source project
21 grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
22 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the section 106 monitoring
23 initiative grant, for the 2021 nonpoint source project grant, for the 2022 drinking water state revolving fund
24 supplemental grant, and for the 2023 nonpoint source project grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal
25 year 2025.
26 Air, Energy, and Mining Division
27 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for a plan to enhance ambient
28 monitoring of pollutants is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
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1 Department of Transportation
2 Highway and Engineering Division
3 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 federal-aid highway
4 program obligation and for the 2021 apportionment of highway infrastructure program funds is authorized to
5 continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
6 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 federal-aid highway
7 program obligation and for the 2022 federal-aid highway program obligation is authorized to continue into
8 federal fiscal year 2025.
9 Motor Carrier Services Division
10 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 high priority grant
11 program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
12 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2022 high priority grant
13 program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
14 Aeronautics Division
15 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Yellowstone airport CARES
16 Act grant and for the Lincoln airport CARES Act grant are authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
17 Rail, Transit, and Planning Division
18 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for CARES Act federal transit
19 administration funding is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
20 Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
21 Conservation and Resource Development Division
22 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the assistance for small and
23 disadvantaged communities drinking water grant program and for the emergency watershed protection program
24 is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
25 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the Water Infrastructure
26 Improvements for the Nation Act grant is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
27 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for quagga mussel prevention
28 support for the upper Columbia conservation commission and for the 2021 water pollution control capitalization
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1 grant is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
2 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for improving range health and
3 providing learning opportunities for college interns is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
4 Water Resources Division
5 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2020 cooperative technical
6 partners award is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
7 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 cooperating technical
8 partners program is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2025.
9 Forest and Trust Lands
10 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescribed fire assistance for the
11 Flathead national forest, for the 2019 consolidated payments grant, for forest health western bark beetle
12 assistance, for 2019 hazardous fuel reduction, for the conservation reserve program sign-up, and for 2020
13 shared stewardship assistance is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2024.
14 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescribed burning and fuel
15 reduction assistance for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forest, for the statewide good neighbor program,
16 for planning and implementation of forest land-related conservation activities, for the urban forest equity
17 initiative, for the fire adapted Montana learning network, and for the emergency fire restoration program for
18 Musselshell and Gallatin Counties is authorized to continue into federal fiscal year 2024.
19 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for prescribed burning and
20 hazardous fuels reduction assistance for Custer Gallatin national forest, for the 2020 consolidated payments
21 grant, and for 2020 hazardous fuels reduction is authorized to continue into state fiscal year 2025.
22 All remaining fiscal year 2023 federal budget amendment authority for the 2021 consolidated forestry
23 program grant, for 2021 hazardous fuels reduction, for the 2022 consolidated forestry program grant, for good
24 neighbor forest restoration services, for the good neighbor agreement for the Flathead national forest, for
25 Kootenai complex restoration projects, for the good neighbor agreement for east side forests restoration, for
26 restoration activities in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forest, for restoration activities in the Helena-Lewis
27 and Clark national forest, for hazardous fuels reduction in the northern region and the joint chiefs' connecting
28 fuels treatments in the Salish Mountains and Whitefish Range project, and for the good neighbor authority