Table 5. FY 2006 Spending Overruns |
|
State |
November 2005 |
Additional Programs in March |
|
Alabama |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Alaska |
N/A |
The Department of Corrections is requesting a supplemental $6.6 million (3.9% increase), primarily due to increased inmate health care costs ($2.6 million), rising out-of-state contractual costs ($1.2 million), and prison population increases ($1.5 million). Health and Social Services FY 2006 supplemental request increases general funds by $81.7 million (13.4%). The increases are primarily for Medicaid ($78.8 million) and Children’s Services ($2.8 million). State agencies are requesting more than $25 million due to increased fuel costs. |
|
Arizona |
K-12 education and Medicaid. |
Still K-12 education and Medicaid. |
|
Arkansas |
N/A |
N/A |
|
California |
Department of Corrections. |
Still the Department of Corrections. |
|
Colorado |
N/A. None currently, although there is the potential for Medicaid to be over budget. |
N/A. No programs are significantly over budget. There may be some small overages in corrections. However, these were more than offset by lower than anticipated caseload growth in Medicaid. |
|
Connecticut |
The state reports that $15.5 million of $38.8 million in total deficiencies is attributable to additional energy needs for state facilities and operations. Other deficiencies are relatively minor. |
Officials anticipate total deficiencies of $28.4 million. A $15.5 million deficiency continues to be anticipated for energy needs for state facilities and operations. Additional deficiencies include the Department of Correction ($5 million), largely due to overtime expenses; the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services ($3 million), largely due to continued increasing cost and utilization of drugs; the Department of Public Safety ($2.3 million), largely due to operating and maintaining information databases and property management costs; the Department of Public Health ($1.1 million), largely due to processing difficulties that require some FY 2005 bills to be paid in FY 2006; the Public Defender Services Commission ($1.1 million), due to higher representation costs and utilization; and other miscellaneous deficiencies ($0.4 million) |
|
Delaware |
Medicaid, but only slightly. |
N/A |
|
Florida |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Georgia |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Hawaii |
Officials anticipate additional funding requests for electricity from all state agencies in the current fiscal year and possible requests in adult mental health and special education. |
Emergency medical services, lower education student transportation, and home and community-based services for individuals with developmental disabilities |
|
Idaho |
Medicaid and corrections. |
N/A |
|
Illinois |
N/R |
N/R |
|
Indiana |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Iowa |
Medicaid. Officials anticipate a supplemental need of $39 million to $54 million. |
Corrections is over budget by $5.2 million, primarily for increased energy costs. Indigent defense is over by $4 million. |
|
Kansas |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Kentucky |
Medicaid, corrections and personnel health care costs. |
N/A |
|
Louisiana |
N/A. There is no information yet on spending overruns; however, the Legislature reduced spending by $606 million from the FY 2006 budget during a special session in November. |
N/A |
|
Maine |
The governor is reviewing supplemental budget requests. Most of the requests center on estimated shortfalls related to higher energy prices, but others are related to higher caseloads in such programs as general assistance and child welfare services. Maine will also need to address some adverse federal audit findings. The Medicaid program with its claims processing problems may be facing shortfalls, but sufficient data are not available at this time. |
N/A |
|
Maryland |
The Department of Legislative Services projects general fund spending for FY 2006 to be over budget by $184 million. The largest area is Medicaid ($110 million) to pay previous years’ bills and to address unrealized cost containment, an underfunded base, and higher managed care organization rates. A $23 million deficiency for the Department of Human Resources may be needed to cover claims against federal grants that were denied. A new inmate medical contract will cost $22 million more than budgeted. Another $18 million is needed to address prior and current year per diem costs for juvenile services programs. A number of miscellaneous items make up the remaining projected shortfall. |
Additional notable deficiency appropriations are provided for juvenile services programs, energy assistance and weatherization programs, public defender operations, fuel costs for state police vehicles, utility costs for health and corrections facilities, workers compensation claims, and an initiative by the governor to provide a retroactive pay increase for correctional officers. More than half of the $237 million in deficiency appropriations ($133.7 million) is for Medicaid. |
|
Massachusetts |
N/A |
Snow and ice removal ($25 million). |
|
Michigan |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Minnesota |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Mississippi |
N/A |
Corrections. |
|
Missouri |
Medicaid. |
Low-income home energy assistance program. |
|
Montana |
Corrections populations are higher than anticipated and will likely result in a supplemental appropriation. The Montana State Hospital, which cares for the mentally ill, is experiencing a significant increase in population and will also likely require a supplemental appropriation. |
Public health and human services: costs related to the federal Deficit Reduction Act and Medicaid expenditures; and judiciary’s district court costs. |
|
Nebraska |
N/A. It is too early to say. Likely candidates are motor fuels costs, natural gas and employee health insurance, but amounts are not likely to be disruptive, budget-wise. |
Isolated instances of utility cost overruns in the current fiscal year. |
|
Nevada |
N/A |
Expenditures in the Medicaid and child welfare budgets are higher than the amounts budgeted in FY 2006. |
|
New Hampshire |
Higher energy costs throughout the entire state government. |
N/A. (Although it is not a budgeted overrun item, flooding in the western part of the state this past fall has created a need for state help to affected towns). |
|
New Jersey |
N/A |
N/A |
|
New Mexico |
Corrections. |
Children, Youth and Families Department. |
|
New York |
Medicare Part D ($72 million), Medicaid ($117 million), and energy costs ($86 million). |
N/A |
|
North Carolina |
N/A |
N/A |
|
North Dakota |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Ohio |
N/A |
Higher education is above estimate by $30.2 million (1.9%), largely due to higher than expected enrollment in the Ohio Instructional Grant Program. Property tax relief is above estimate by $14.5 million (2%), due to the timing of requests for reimbursement. Debt service is above estimate by $39 million (11.6%), due to timing. |
|
Oklahoma |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Oregon |
Department of Human Services-Medicaid. Although the agency has not yet submitted a formal budget rebalance to the Legislative Emergency Board, it appears that substantial cost increases over the adopted budget are due to caseload changes and other factors. |
Medicaid is still an issue. |
|
Pennsylvania |
N/A |
Medical Assistance is $138 million over budget, largely due to unanticipated costs for long-term care and greater than expected utilization of nursing home beds. Cash grants are $44 million over budget, reflecting increased need for child care services for current TANF recipients and former TANF recipients who are making the transition to self-sufficiency. |
|
Rhode Island |
N/A |
N/A |
|
South Carolina |
N/A |
N/A |
|
South Dakota |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Tennessee |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Texas |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Utah |
Medicaid is expected to require $11 million in supplemental funding for FY 2006. |
N/A. Medicaid is currently within budget. |
|
Vermont |
Vermont’s fuel assistance program is usually funded primarily with federal dollars, but the program is requiring a significant infusion of state funds to meet its need. Currently, Medicaid and corrections are running higher than expected. The special funds that support natural resource programs (forest and parks, and fish and wildlife) are not performing well and are likely to require general fund help. |
N/A. Officials addressed this year’s Medicaid, corrections and fuel assistance overruns, along with other minor cost overruns, in the budget adjustment process. Nothing else is running over. |
|
Virginia |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Washington |
Public school spending is up due to migration and higher inflation. State medical assistance costs are rising as the federal government further tightens its requirements. |
Corrections and TANF. |
|
West Virginia |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Wisconsin |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Wyoming |
N/A |
Medicaid. |
|
Number of States: |
N/A = 30
Overruns = 19
N/R = 1 |
N/A = 30
Overruns = 19
N/R = 1 |
