Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Fish and Game for fiscal year 2020.

This is the FY 2020 original appropriation bill for the Department of Fish and Game. It appropriates a total of $127,453,100 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 569.00. For benefit costs, the bill maintains the current appropriated amount for health insurance at $11,650 per eligible FTP; provides a 5.5% increase for the employer's share of PERSI contributions; and temporarily reduces the rate agencies pay the Division of Human Resources for its services. Funding for replacement items includes $5,695,400 for 70 fleet vehicles and accessories, one dump truck, a housing unit at the Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA), firearms, ballistic vests, servers, networking and computer equipment, 20 snowmobiles, outboard motors, and electrofishing equipment. For statewide cost allocation, $61,200 is provided. The bill also provides funding for the equivalent of a 3% change in employee compensation for permanent employees, with a minimum increase of $550 for each employee and the remaining amount to be distributed based on merit. Funding for a 3% upward shift in the compensation schedule is also included. The bill funds 17 line items, which provide: $2,338,100 for endangered species habitat projects in the Pend Oreille, Bear River, and Blackfoot River drainages; $5,940,400 for mitigation projects due to the inundation of the Albeni Falls Dam; $500,000 added to the base appropriation to pay lease payments on the new headquarters building in Boise; $1,195,000 for access for anglers and fish screen construction and maintenance; $1,109,000 for biosecurity updates at the Hagerman Hatchery; $991,700 for increased hatchery trout production; $200,000 to increase testing capacity at the Eagle Fish Genetics Lab; $309,700 to conduct hunter surveys and research; $1,270,000 for a water control structure on the Fort Boise WMA; $550,000 for mining restoration projects in north Idaho; $100,000 for landscape scale Mule Deer habitat projects; $120,000 for the