THE Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (DUN) has unanimously passed the Supplementary Supply (2024) Bill, approving an additional RM68,746,470 in ordinary expenditure on the fourth day of its current sitting.
The Bill’s Second Supplementary Estimates of Ordinary Expenditure 2024, was tabled by Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, who is also the Second Finance and New Economy Minister.
“This additional expenditure is to meet the cost of various incurred services
by various ministries and departments for which funds were not provided for or insufficiently provided for in the 2024 Estimates and First Supplementary Estimates, 2024,” he said while presenting the Bill.
The motion was seconded by Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, who is also Minister of International Trade, Industry and Investment, as well as the Second Minister of Natural Resources and Urban Development.
The assembly further approved an additional RM61,000,230 under the First Supplementary Estimates of Development Expenditure 2024.
According to Uggah, these funds will support 22 sub-activities and 24 sub-sub activities crucial to state development under the Development Funds Act, 1966.
“The amount required has been reallocated from savings within the relevant subheads and/or advanced from contingency reserves,” he said.
The allocations included RM61 million for housing development, with the remainder directed towards land infrastructure, government buildings, public utilities, land compensation, residential extensions, urban and industrial development, public finance, tourism, social development, crop and agricultural development, education, and transport infrastructure.
