Bill > S1159

This bill appropriates a total of $204,546,900 to the Department of Commerce for fiscal year 2024, covering the period from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. * **General Fund:** $6,669,000 for trustee and personnel costs, operating expenditures, and benefit payments. * **Idaho Opportunity Fund:** $3,000,000 for unspecified purposes. * **Tourism and Promotion Fund:** $27,741,000 for trustee and personnel costs, operating expenditures, and benefit payments. * **Miscellaneous Revenue Fund:** $157,500 for unspecified purposes. * **Seminars and Publications Fund:** $378,400 for unspecified purposes. * **ARPA Capital Projects Fund:** $303,100 for unspecified purposes, with an additional reappropriation of up to $124,100,000 from fiscal year 2023 balances for broadband infrastructure. * **Federal Grant Fund:** $166,297,900 for trustee and personnel costs, operating expenditures, and benefit payments, with an additional reappropriation of up to $50,000,000 from fiscal year 2023 balances for broadband infrastructure. * **Idaho Broadband Fund:** Reappropriation of up to $35,000,000 from fiscal year 2023 balances for nonrecurring expenditures for broadband infrastructure. * **American Rescue Plan Fund:** Reappropriation of up to $1,000,000 from fiscal year 2023 balances for nonrecurring expenditures for economic planning. The Department of Commerce is authorized to have no more than 48 full-time equivalent positions during the fiscal year, unless approved by the Governor. Funds intended for specific purposes must be used only for those purposes, and all funds are subject to accountability reports. Broadband grants from the American Rescue Plan Act Capital Projects Fund and Federal Grant Fund will be allocated at the direction of the Idaho Broadband Advisory Board.