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Excerpt from Illinois Detailed Annual Report of Revenues and Expenditures, 1995: Fiscal Year 1995, July 1, 1994-June 30, 1995 The Appropriated Funds consists of nine related fund groups general, highway, income, special state, bond financed, debt service, federal trust, revolving, and state trust funds. Historically, the general funds and special state funds have both included individual funds which have not had appropriations (authority to spend) but were considered to be either supporting expenditures from another appropriated fund or subject to appropriation. Several individual funds in the special state, federal trust, and state trust funds groups also reflect spending from both appropriation and no appropriation accounts pursuant to Statute. The non-appropriated Funds category is composed of federal trust funds and state trust funds. In fiscal year 1995, appropriations totaling billion from 379 individual funds were passed by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor. Total warrants issued (actual spending) charged to these appropriations were billion with another $517 million issued against no appropriation accounts under the Appropriated Funds category. The State's largest and most important fund group is the General Funds. Appropriations from the General Funds in fiscal year 1995 were billion or of total appropriations from all funds and warrants charged against these appropriations were billion or of total warrants issued against all appropriations. In Table 1 of the report, the reader will be able to find beginning and ending available and budgetary balances for fiscal year 1995 for specific funds and fund groups for both appropriated and non-appropriated funds. Other information in this table includes cash receipts, transfers in, transfers out and expenditures from-current year as well as lapse period spending for prior and current year fer individual funds and fund groups. Corresponding fund codes are also listed with each individu