Budget allocations; absent gambling money!
By Mary Ellen Klas
Tallahasse Bureau
© 2009 St. Petersburg Times/The Miami Herald
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TALLAHASSEE: Here are the budget allocations. Note there is no gambling money here because -- if they agree to pass their gambling bills -- they will be putting the revenues into the working capital and budget stabilization funds. Why? So members who oppose gambling don't have to say they're voting against, say, education, if that money were earmarked there.
Community Colleges and Workforce: $1.2 billion in general revenue (GR), $120 million from education tf, $108 million from stimulus.
Universities and private colleges: $2 billion in GR; $655 million from education tf, $219 million from stimulus.
Prek-12: $8 billion in GR, $328 million from education tf, $1 billion from stimulus.
Healthcare: $2.6 billionin GR, $140 million from tobacco settlement, $1.4 from stimulus and $851 from tobacco tax, $12 million from trust fund sweeps.
Health and Healthy Seniors: $221 millionin GR, $25 million from tobacco settlement, $16 million from stimulus .
Health and Human Services: $2.2 billion in GR, $133 million in stimulus, $27 million from trust fund sweeps, and $50 million from the tobacco tax; $232 million from tobacco settlement .
Civil Justice: $3.6 billion in GR, including $7 million in fees.
Transportation and Econ Dev: $275 million in GR, $657 million in highway safety fees, $116 millin in trust fund fees, $1.3 million in fees and redirects, $100 million from the transporation trust fund, $40 million from toll trust fund, $91 million from housing trust fund and $32 million in trust fund sweeps.
Gov't Ops: $247 million in GR, $28 million from surplus lines redirect and $47 million from trust fund sweeps.
Natural Resources: $154 million in GR, $45 million from fees and redirects, $247 million from trust fund sweeps.
Admi Funds/EOG: $201 million in GR, $321 million from education tf, 1.5 million from trust fund sweeps