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Fitzhugh, E.L.
Sources and distribution of proposition 117 Funds Abstracts Fifth Mountain Lion Workshop 27.02.-01.03., 1996 Bahia Hotel, San Diego, California
1996  Conference Proceeding

Proposition 117, which effectively banned sport hunting of mountain lions (felis concolor), also redirected $30,000,000 every year for 30 years from other already-existing California funds. In April 1990, I prepared an unpublished report analyzing the fiscal aspects of Proposition 117. The poster incorporates parts of that earlier report, and then shows what has actually happened through 1994 (the latest report available from the Wildlife Conservation Board, Resources Agency, when this poster was prepared). In 1990 the proposed fiscal management of money from proposition 117 was unclear. The only two clear conclusions were that the money would have to come from somewhere, and that 10% of the Unallocated Account of the Tobacco Tax Fund would provide some of it. Numerous other accounts were identified in the proposition as possible sources. The sources from which funds were actually redirected within the state budget are identified as much as possible, and the expenditures are summarized by categories, with graphic figures for better visualization. Administrative costs use $2,200,000 annually. Difficulties in the reporting of other expenditures required that I make some estimations and these are explained. The fiscal provisions of Proposition 117 will not be affected by the initiative measure (Proposition 197) before the voters March 26, 1996, so these expenditures will continue through the fiscal year 2020-21 unless altered at some future time by another public initiative measure.

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