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AK Stat § 37.05.315 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 5. Administration of Grants.|Sec. 37.05.315. Grants to municipalities.

(a) When an amount is appropriated or allocated as a grant to a municipality, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall promptly notify the municipality of the availability of the grant. When the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development receives an agreement executed by the municipality that provides that the municipality (1) will spend the grant for the purposes specified in the appropriation or allocation; (2) will allow, on request, an audit by the state of the uses made of the grant; and (3) assures that, to the extent consistent with the purpose of the appropriation or allocation, the facilities and services provided with the grant will be available for the use of the general public, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall pay the grant directly to the municipality. The agreement executed by a municipality under this section shall be on a form furnished by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development and shall be executed within 60 days after the effective date of the appropriation or allocation. (b) An appropriation or allocation for a grant to a municipality lapses if substantial, ongoing work on the project has not begun within five years after the effective date of the appropriation or allocation. (c) In accepting a grant of money for construction of a public facility, a municipality covenants with the state that it will operate and maintain the facility for the practical life of the facility and that the municipality will not look to the state to operate or maintain the facility or pay for its operation or maintenance. This requirement does not apply to a grant of money for repair or improvement of an existing facility operated or maintained by the state at the time the grant is accepted if the repair or improvement for which the grant is made will not substantially increase the operating or maintenance costs to the state. (d) Not less than 20 percent of a grant shall be paid to a municipality within 10 days of the effective date of the agreement under (a) of this section. The remainder of the grant shall be paid either in monthly installments equal to the amount of grant money the municipality expended in the previous month or in a lump sum as determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. (e) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall require a municipality awarded a grant for a public works project under (a) of this section to comply with the hiring preferences under AS 36.10.150 - 36.10.175 for employment generated by the grant.
AK Stat § 37.05.316 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 5. Administration of Grants.|Sec. 37.05.316. Grants to named recipients.

(a) When an amount is appropriated or allocated to a department as a grant under this section for a named recipient that is not a municipality, the department to which the appropriation or allocation is made shall promptly notify the named recipient of the availability of the grant and request the named recipient to submit a proposal to provide the goods or services specified in the appropriation act for which the appropriation or allocation is made. A grant agreement must be executed within 60 days after the effective date of the appropriation or allocation unless the department determines that an award of the grant would not be in the public interest. (b) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall require a recipient awarded a grant for a public works project under (a) of this section to comply with the hiring preferences under AS 36.10.150 - 36.10.175 for employment generated by the grant. (c) An appropriation or allocation for a grant to a named recipient that is not a municipality lapses if substantial, ongoing work on the project has not begun within five years after the effective date of the appropriation or allocation.
AK Stat § 37.05.317 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 5. Administration of Grants.|Sec. 37.05.317. Grants to unincorporated communities.

(a) When an amount is appropriated or allocated as a grant under this section to an unincorporated community, it shall be disbursed as follows: (1) Within 45 days after the effective date of the appropriation or allocation, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall notify the governing body of the unincorporated community, if any, that a grant is available. (2) The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall determine if there is a qualified incorporated entity in the community area that will agree to receive the grant and administer it, subject to terms generally applicable to private grantees. If there is more than one such entity, the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development shall select the most qualified and the grant shall be awarded to that incorporated entity for the purposes specified in the appropriation act. However, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall give preference to a nonprofit corporation organized by a community for receipt of the grant. (3) If there is no incorporated entity qualified to receive the grant, the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall administer the program as specified in the appropriation act directly or through agents or contractors with whom it may contract in the community area. (b) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall require the qualified incorporated entity awarded a grant or agents or contractors with whom the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development contracts under (a) of this section to comply with the requirements of AS 36.10.150 - 36.10.175 for employment generated by the grant or contract if the grant or contract is for a public works project. (c) An appropriation or allocation for a grant to an unincorporated community lapses if substantial, ongoing work on the project has not begun within five years after the effective date of the appropriation or allocation.
AK Stat § 37.05.318 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 5. Administration of Grants.|Sec. 37.05.318. Further regulations prohibited.

Notwithstanding AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act), AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act), and other provisions of this chapter, a state agency may not adopt regulations or impose additional requirements or procedures to implement, interpret, make specific, or otherwise carry out the provisions of AS 37.05.315 - 37.05.317 unless required by the federal government for participation in federal programs.
AK Stat § 37.05.321 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 5. Administration of Grants.|Sec. 37.05.321. Restriction on use.

A grant or earnings from a grant made under AS 37.05.315 - 37.05.317 may not be used for the purpose of influencing legislative action. In this section “influencing legislative action” means promoting, advocating, supporting, modifying, opposing, or delaying or seeking to do the same with respect to any legislative action but does not include the provision or use of information, statistics, studies, or analyses in written or oral form or format. A grant or earnings from a grant made under AS 37.05.315 - 37.05.317 may not be used for purposes of travel in connection with influencing legislative action unless pursuant to a specific request from a legislator or legislative committee.
AK Stat § 37.05.325 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 5. Administration of Grants.|Sec. 37.05.325. Definitions for AS 37.05.315 - 37.05.317.

In AS 37.05.315 - 37.05.317, “allocation” and “appropriation” have the meanings given in AS 37.07.120.
AK Stat § 37.05.500 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.500. Special funds.

(a) The following funds shall be treated for accounting purposes as accounts in the general fund: (1) special revolving fund - surplus property (AS 44.68.130(c)); (2) the vocational rehabilitation small business enterprise revolving fund (AS 23.15.130). (b) There shall be created in the general fund for each of the funds designated in (a) of this section a reserve equal to the excess of revenue received by each fund over expenditures made from that fund.
AK Stat § 37.05.510 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.510. Working reserve account.

(a) There is established in the general fund a working reserve account. The working reserve account consists of amounts appropriated to state agencies for (1) cash payment of accrued leave; (2) cash payment of terminal leave; (3) payment of the employer's contribution for unemployment benefits of former employees; and (4) payment of claims for workers' compensation and general liability. (b) The Department of Administration shall allocate to the working reserve account amounts appropriated to all state agencies for the benefits set out in (a) of this section after the appropriation Act implementing the state operating budget is enacted. The department shall charge the reserve account with all payments for the benefits set out in (a) of this section. If payments for a fiscal year exceed the unexpended balance of appropriations allocated to the account, the department may, except for payments under (a)(4) of this section, pay those benefits by charging the unencumbered balance of any appropriation enacted to finance the payment of employee salaries and benefits that is determined to be available for lapse at the end of the fiscal year.
AK Stat § 37.05.520 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.520. Railbelt energy fund.

There is established in the general fund the Railbelt energy fund. The fund consists of money appropriated to it by the legislature and interest received on money in the fund. The department of revenue shall manage the fund. The legislature may appropriate money from the fund for programs, projects, and other expenditures to assist in meeting Railbelt energy needs, including projects for retrofitting state-owned buildings and facilities for energy conservation.
AK Stat § 37.05.540 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.540. Budget reserve fund; appropriation limit.

(a) There is established as a separate fund in the state treasury the budget reserve fund. The budget reserve fund consists of appropriations to the fund. Money received by the state that is subject to the appropriation limit under (b) of this section and that exceeds that limit, may be appropriated to the budget reserve fund. (b) Except for appropriations to the permanent fund or for Alaska permanent fund dividends, appropriations to the budget reserve fund, appropriations of revenue bond proceeds, appropriations required to pay the principal and interest on general obligation bonds, and appropriations of money received from a nonstate source in trust for a specific purpose, including revenue of a public enterprise or public corporation of the state that issues revenue bonds, appropriations from the mental health trust settlement income account (AS 37.14.036), and appropriations made to the mental health trust fund (AS 37.14.031), appropriations from the treasury made in a fiscal year may not exceed appropriations made in the preceding fiscal year by more than five percent plus the change in population and inflation since the beginning of the preceding fiscal year. For purposes of applying this limit an appropriation is considered to be made in the fiscal year in which it is enacted and a reappropriation remains attributed to the fiscal year in which the original appropriation is enacted. The determination of the change in population for purposes of this subsection shall be based on an annual estimate of population by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The determination of the change in inflation for purposes of this subsection shall be based on the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for Anchorage prepared by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The amount of money received by the state that is subject to the appropriation limit includes the balance in the general fund carried forward from the preceding fiscal year. (c) If the legislature determines that the money subject to the appropriation limit received by the state in a fiscal year is less than the maximum permitted to be appropriated under (b) of this section, up to 25 percent of the balance of the budget reserve fund may be appropriated to the general fund. (d) The Department of Revenue shall manage and invest assets of the budget reserve fund in the manner set out for the management and investment of the assets of the general fund under AS 37.10.070. Income from investment of the budget reserve fund may be appropriated to the fund each year by law. (e) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, appropriations may be made from the budget reserve fund needed by the governor to meet a disaster. In this subsection, “disaster” has the meaning given in AS 26.23.900.
AK Stat § 37.05.550 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.550. Alaska marine highway system vessel replacement fund.

(a) There is in the general fund the Alaska marine highway system vessel replacement fund. The fund consists of money appropriated to it by the legislature. Money appropriated to the fund does not lapse. The Department of Revenue shall manage the fund. Interest received on money in the fund shall be accounted for separately and may be appropriated into the fund annually. The legislature may appropriate money from the fund for refurbishment of existing state ferry vessels, acquisition of additional state ferry vessels, or replacement of retired or outmoded state ferry vessels. (b) The legislature may appropriate to the fund money received by the state as Alaska marine highway system program receipts or from a settlement or final judicial determination of the Dinkum Sands case (United States v. Alaska) and the North Slope royalty case (State v. Amerada Hess, et al.) and not deposited into the Alaska permanent fund under AS 37.13.010(a)(1) or (2) or into the public school trust fund under AS 37.14.150. (c) The Department of Revenue shall prepare a written report, no later than the 10th legislative day of each regular legislative session, regarding the earnings of the Alaska marine highway system vessel replacement fund during the prior fiscal year and projected earnings of the Alaska marine highway system vessel replacement fund for the current fiscal year and the next fiscal year. The Department of Revenue shall notify the legislature that the report is available.
AK Stat § 37.05.555 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.555. University of Alaska building fund.

(a) The University of Alaska building fund is created as a special account in the general fund. The fund consists of (1) payments made to the University of Alaska by a public or private occupant of a covered building under an agreement with the University of Alaska for costs of the occupant's use and occupancy of building space; and (2) appropriations to the fund. (b) The legislature may appropriate, annually and under AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act), amounts from the University of Alaska building fund to the University of Alaska to pay the costs of use, management, operation, maintenance, and depreciation related to space in covered buildings managed under an agreement with the University of Alaska. (c) Appropriations to the University of Alaska building fund are not one-year appropriations and do not lapse under AS 37.25.010. (d) The unexpended and unobligated balance of an appropriation from the University of Alaska building fund lapses into the University of Alaska building fund at the end of the fiscal year for which it was appropriated. (e) Nothing in this section exempts money deposited into the University of Alaska building fund from the requirements of AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act) or dedicates that money for a specific purpose. (f) In this section, “covered building” means a building owned by the University of Alaska and designated by the Board of Regents as a covered building.
AK Stat § 37.05.560 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.560. Educational facilities maintenance and construction fund.

(a) The educational facilities maintenance and construction fund is established as a separate fund in the general fund. The fund consists of all money appropriated to it. (b) The educational facilities maintenance and construction fund shall be invested by the Department of Revenue so as to yield competitive market rates, as provided in AS 37.10.071. Money in the fund may be appropriated (1) to finance the design, construction, and maintenance of public school facilities; and (2) for maintenance of University of Alaska facilities. (c) Appropriations from the education facilities maintenance and construction fund are subject to AS 14.11.008.
AK Stat § 37.05.565 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.565. Alaska capital income fund.

(a) There is established in the general fund the Alaska capital income fund consisting of money deposited to the fund under AS 37.13.145(d) and of appropriations to the fund. The fund shall be invested by the Department of Revenue to yield competitive market rates as provided in AS 37.10.071. Income earned on money in the fund may be appropriated to the fund. (b) Money may be appropriated from the Alaska capital income fund for state facilities preventive or deferred maintenance, including replacement of parts, systems, or components, or other activities needed to preserve or maintain state assets, and to cover annual debt service and reserves for debt service on bonds authorized by state law. Nothing in this subsection creates a dedicated fund.
AK Stat § 37.05.570 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.570. Alaska public building fund.

(a) There is created as a special account in the general fund the Alaska public building fund into which shall be deposited (1) payments made to the Department of Administration by a public or private occupant of a covered building under an agreement with the Department of Administration for costs of the occupant's use and occupancy of building space; and (2) appropriations to the Alaska public building fund. (b) Beginning with the appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, on an annual basis and under AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act), the legislature may appropriate amounts from the Alaska public building fund to the Department of Administration to pay use, management, operation, maintenance, and depreciation costs related to space of covered buildings managed under an agreement with the Department of Administration. (c) Appropriations to the Alaska public building fund are not one-year appropriations and do not lapse under AS 37.25.010. (d) The unexpended and unobligated balance of an appropriation from the Alaska public building fund lapses into the Alaska public building fund at the end of the fiscal year for which it was appropriated. (e) Nothing in this section exempts money deposited into the Alaska public building fund from the requirements of AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act) or dedicates that money for a specific purpose. (f) In this section, “covered building” means any building owned by the state for which the responsibility for operation, maintenance, and management has been assigned to the Department of Administration.
AK Stat § 37.05.580 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.580. Tobacco use education and cessation fund.

(a) There is created as a special account in the general fund the tobacco use education and cessation fund into which shall be deposited 20 percent annually of the revenue derived from the settlement of State of Alaska v. Philip Morris, Incorporated, et al, No. 1JU-97-915 CI (Alaska Super. 1997). The purpose of the tobacco use education and cessation fund is to provide a source to finance the comprehensive smoking education, tobacco use prevention, and tobacco control program authorized by AS 44.29.020(a)(14). (b) The legislature may make appropriations from the tobacco use education and cessation fund for the comprehensive smoking education, tobacco use prevention, and tobacco control program established under AS 44.29.020(a)(14). (c) Nothing in this section creates a dedicated fund.
AK Stat § 37.05.590 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.590. Civil legal services fund.

The civil legal services fund is established as a special account in the general fund. The fund consists of appropriations to it. Annually, the legislature may appropriate to the fund only from amounts deposited into the general fund of the state under AS 09.17.020(j) and an amount from the general fund that is up to 10 percent of the filing fees received by the Alaska Court System during the previous closed fiscal year. The legislature may make appropriations from the fund to organizations that provide civil legal services to low-income individuals. Nothing in this section creates a dedicated fund. In this section, “low-income individual” means an individual with an income equal to or less than 125 percent of the most recent federal poverty guidelines for Alaska set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
AK Stat § 37.05.600 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 37. Public Finance|Chapter 05. Fiscal Procedures Act|Article 6. Special Funds.|Sec. 37.05.600. Alaska veterans' cemetery fund.

(a) There is created as a special account in the general fund the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund into which shall be deposited appropriations to the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund. (b) Beginning with the appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, on an annual basis and under AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act), the legislature may appropriate amounts from the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Alaska veterans' cemeteries established under AS 44.35.035. (c) Appropriations to the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund are not one-year appropriations and do not lapse under AS 37.25.010. (d) The unexpended and unobligated balance of an appropriation from the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund lapses into the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund at the end of the fiscal year for which it was appropriated. (e) Nothing in this section exempts money deposited into the Alaska veterans' cemetery fund from the requirements of AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act) or dedicates that money for a specific purpose.