20.003 Appropriation acts and bills.

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(2)Legislative reference bureau authority. All appropriations made by the legislature shall be listed in this chapter. The legislative reference bureau shall assign numbers in this chapter to any appropriation not so numbered and if appropriation laws are enacted which are not numbered to correspond with the numbering system of this chapter as outlined in sub.

(3), the legislative reference bureau shall renumber such laws accordingly.

(3)Numbering system.

(a)In the schedule of s. 20.005 and in the text in ss. 20.115 to 20.875 , all state agencies shall be arranged within functional areas. Each functional area is assigned a subchapter and each state agency shall be assigned a section within that subchapter. Each subsection constitutes a program, and each paragraph constitutes an appropriation.

(b)Except as provided under par.

(c), all appropriations are identified according to their source of funds, as defined in s. 20.001 , by the paragraph letters assigned as follows:

1. Appropriations from general purpose revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters

(a)to (fz).

2. To the extent feasible, appropriations from program revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters

(g)to

(jz)and

(L)to (pz).

3. To the extent feasible, appropriations from program revenue — service shall be assigned paragraph letters

(k)to (kz).

4. Appropriations from segregated revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters

(q)to (zz).

5. To the extent feasible, federal program revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters

(m)to (pz).

6. To the extent feasible, federal segregated revenues shall be assigned paragraph letters

(x)to (zz).

(c)All appropriations under ss. 20.370 and 20.395 shall be identified by 2 letters, the first letter indicating a subprogram and the 2nd letter indicating the source of funds, as defined in s. 20.001 . To the extent feasible, the 2nd paragraph letters shall be assigned as follows:

1. Appropriations from general purpose revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “a” to “f”.

2. Appropriations from program revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “g” to “j” or “L” to “p”.

3. Appropriations from program revenue — service shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “k”.

4. Appropriations from segregated revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “q” to “z”.

5. Federal program revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “m” to “p”.

6. Federal segregated revenues shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “x” to “z”.

7. Appropriations from segregated revenues — local shall be shown with a 2nd paragraph letter of “v” to “z”.

(e)The legislative reference bureau shall adhere to such standard numbering system and format when creating, repealing or amending the appropriation statutes.

(4)Required general fund balance. No bill directly or indirectly affecting general purpose revenues as defined in s. 20.001

(a)may be enacted by the legislature if the bill would cause the estimated general fund balance on June 30 of any fiscal year specified in this subsection, as projected under s. 20.005

(1), to be an amount equal to less than the following amounts for that fiscal year or percentage of the total general purpose revenue appropriations for that fiscal year plus any amount from general purpose revenue designated as “Compensation Reserves” for that fiscal year in the summary under s. 20.005

(1):

(ft)For fiscal year 2007-08, $65,000,000.