63J-3-103 - Definitions.
63J-3-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) (a) "Appropriations" means actual unrestricted capital and operating appropriationsfrom unrestricted General Fund and Education Fund sources.
(b) "Appropriations" includes appropriations that are contingent upon available surplusesin the General Fund and Education Fund.
(c) "Appropriations" does not mean:
(i) public education expenditures;
(ii) Utah Education Network expenditures in support of public education;
(iii) Utah College of Applied Technology expenditures in support of public education;
(iv) Tax Commission expenditures related to collection of income taxes in support ofpublic education;
(v) debt service expenditures;
(vi) emergency expenditures;
(vii) expenditures from all other fund or subfund sources;
(viii) transfers or appropriations from the Education Fund to the Uniform School Fund;
(ix) transfers into, or appropriations made to, the General Fund Budget Reserve Accountestablished in Section 63J-1-312;
(x) transfers into, or appropriations made to, the Education Budget Reserve Accountestablished in Section 63J-1-313;
(xi) transfers in accordance with Section 63J-1-314 into, or appropriations made to theState Disaster Recovery Restricted Account created in Section 53-2-403;
(xii) money appropriated to fund the total one-time project costs for the construction ofcapital developments as defined in Section 63A-5-104;
(xiii) transfers or deposits into or appropriations made to the Centennial Highway FundRestricted Account created by Section 72-2-118;
(xiv) transfers or deposits into or appropriations made to the Transportation InvestmentFund of 2005 created by Section 72-2-124;
(xv) transfers or deposits into or appropriations made to:
(A) the Department of Transportation from any source; or
(B) any transportation-related account or fund from any source; or
(xvi) supplemental appropriations from the General Fund to the Division of Forestry,Fire, and State Lands to provide money for wildland fire control expenses incurred during thecurrent or previous fire years.
(2) "Base year real per capita appropriations" means the result obtained for the state bydividing the fiscal year 1985 actual appropriations of the state less debt money by:
(a) the state's July 1, 1983 population; and
(b) the fiscal year 1983 inflation index divided by 100.
(3) "Calendar year" means the time period beginning on January 1 of any given year andending on December 31 of the same year.
(4) "Fiscal emergency" means an extraordinary occurrence requiring immediateexpenditures and includes the settlement under Laws of Utah 1988, Fourth Special Session,Chapter 4.
(5) "Fiscal year" means the time period beginning on July 1 of any given year and endingon June 30 of the subsequent year.
(6) "Fiscal year 1985 actual base year appropriations" means fiscal year 1985 actualcapital and operations appropriations from General Fund and non-Uniform School Fund incometax revenue sources, less debt money.
(7) "Inflation index" means the change in the general price level of goods and services asmeasured by the Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator of the Bureau of EconomicAnalysis, U.S. Department of Commerce calculated as provided in Section 63J-3-202.
(8) (a) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" means the appropriations that couldbe, or could have been, spent in any given year under the limitations of this chapter.
(b) "Maximum allowable appropriations limit" does not mean actual appropriations spentor actual expenditures.
(9) "Most recent fiscal year's inflation index" means the fiscal year inflation index twofiscal years previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and populationappropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
(10) "Most recent fiscal year's population" means the fiscal year population two fiscalyears previous to the fiscal year for which the maximum allowable inflation and populationappropriations limit is being computed under this chapter.
(11) "Population" means the number of residents of the state as of July 1 of each year ascalculated by the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget according to the procedures andrequirements of Section 63J-3-202.
(12) "Revenues" means the revenues of the state from every tax, penalty, receipt, andother monetary exaction and interest connected with it that are recorded as unrestricted revenueof the General Fund and from non-Uniform School Fund income tax revenues, except asspecifically exempted by this chapter.
(13) "Security" means any bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness,whether or not the bond, note, warrant, or other evidence of indebtedness is or constitutes an"indebtedness" within the meaning of any provision of the constitution or laws of this state.
Amended by Chapter 137, 2010 General Session