Fahie highlights need for up-to-date SAPs As the latest step in clearing up missing budget documents from past years, the House of Assembly debated and passed the Supplementary Appropriation (2016) Act, 2021 on May 11. The … As the latest step in clearing up missing budget documents from past years, the House of Assembly debated and passed the Supplementary Appropriation (2016) Act, 2021 on May 11. The acts show how government shuffled funds for various projects in 2016, using budget surpluses from some initiatives for other underfunded efforts. Such appropriation acts are meant to come within six months of the end of the year they address, but they have come late in recent years, with then-Governor Gus Jaspert assenting to SAPs from 2014 and 2015 last July.