Legislative Bulletin

September 28, 2001


State starts its fiscal year with empty pockets
Before it can decide how much money to spend and for what purpose, the General Assembly must first balance its year-end accounts from the previous year and determine how much tax revenue it anticipates collecting in the year ahead. All these figures are laid out in the “budget reform statement,” a required accounting report. As all the zeros at the top of this year’s statement shows, the state starts the new fiscal year with not much more than lint in its pockets. Dollars are in millions.

Composition of the 2001-02 beginning availability

2001-02

2002-03

Unappropriated balance                    

$0.0

 

Revenue collections in fiscal year 2000-2001 in

 

 

     excess of authorized estimates             

0.0

 

Unexpended appropriations during fiscal year

 

 

     2000-2001 (Reversions)                     

0.0

 

Beginning Unreserved Credit Balance           

0.0

 

Revenues Based on Existing Tax Structure

$13,303.4

$13,979.0

Non-Tax Revenues:

 

 

     Investment Income                        

164.0 

171.0

     Judicial Fees                            

112.8 

115.9

     Disproportionate Share                   

107.0 

107.0

     Insurance                                

 45.5 

 47.4

     Other Non-Tax Revenues                    

96.5  

97.3

     Highway Trust Fund Transfer              

170.0 

170.0

     Highway Fund Transfer                 

 14.5   

15.3

  Subtotal                                 

$14,013.7

$14,702.9

Other Adjustments

 

 

  IRC Conformity Adjustment (included in H. 232)

(3.4) 

(3.8)

  N.C. Railroad General Fund Repayment

19.0

 

  S. 353 Enhance Department of Revenue Collections

 50.0 

 50.0

  Education/Human Services/Mental Health/

 

 

     Revenue Initiatives                      

435.3 

614.4

  H. 1157 Implementation – Closure of Tax Loopholes

61.3  

64.3

  H. 232 Implementation – Budget Revenue Provisions

112.1  

 6.0

  Increase in Nontax Revenues -- Patients'

 

 

     Bill of Rights (S. 199)          

 0.4  

 0.9

Transfer/Adjustment of Cash from Special,

 

 

     Trust, Internal Service, and Reserve Funds

23.4  

 0.5

Court Fee Funds to State Bar                  

 (0.8)

 (1.7)

Credit to the Savings Reserve Account     

(181.0)

 

Subtotal                              

 516.3 

730.6

Total General Fund Availability        

$14,530.0

$15,433.5


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