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AMENDMENT NO 1 TO AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

Senate Bill No. 3045

BY: Representative Scott

AMEND by inserting the following after line 335 and renumbering the succeeding sections:

”SECTION 28.  The following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Capital Expense Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Department of Finance and Administration for the purpose specified in this section, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023 .$ 430,000,000.00.

     The money appropriated under this section shall be allocated   in an amounts of $2,500,000.00 to each member of the Legislature for use by the member, in his or her discretion, to fund projects in the member's district during the fiscal year.

     The appropriation in this section shall be funded by decreasing the amount appropriated from the State General Fund for debt service under Senate Bill No. 3054 by the same amount of this appropriation, as required under Joint Rule 20A."

AMEND FURTHER by inserting the following after line 341 and renumbering the succeeding sections:

”SECTION 30.  The following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Department of Finance and Administration for the purpose of providing funds to counties, metropolitan cities and nonentitlement units of local government to be used for costs associated with water and sewer infrastructure projects authorized under the American Rescue Plan Act, as provided in Section 2 of this act, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023................. $ 900,000,000.00.

     SECTION 31.  (1)  The funds appropriated in Section 1 of this act shall be distributed to counties, metropolitan cities and nonentitlement units of local government in accordance with an equitable formula developed by the Department of Finance and Administration; however, the department shall distribute Six Hundred Million Dollars ($600,000,000.00) of the funds to the metropolitan cities and nonentitlement units of local government having the greatest need for the funds, as determined by the department.

     (2)  As a condition of receiving funds from the department under this act, each recipient must expend as matching funds a certain percentage of its funds received under the American Rescue Plan Act for water or sewer infrastructure projects, the percentage to be specified by the department, and the recipient must document those expenditures to the department.

     SECTION 32.  The money appropriated by Section 30 of this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund not otherwise appropriated, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his or her warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers in the manner provided by law."

AMEND FURTHER the title to conform.