Legislative fiscal staff reported to the General Government Appropriations Subcommittee that agencies under the committee's jurisdiction have nearly $5 million in available, unspent funding across previously approved one-time and non-lapsing items and recommended agencies provide project-level cost projections before the Legislature reallocates any of those balances.

Yvonne Jamboff of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst's office demonstrated an online dashboard that tracks 411 funded items statewide and walked members through a table of items that, as of the close of fiscal year 2025, showed available balances and staff recommendations. Yamboff said the dashboard lets members filter by subcommittee, agency and implementation status and that for items with money remaining staff generally recommends agencies provide more-specific actuals and projected costs before the Legislature redirects funds.

The Department of Government Operations (GovOps) responded with program-level explanations and asked the committee not to reallocate funds the agency said are encumbered or intended to match federal grants. Jay Kennison, GovOps executive finance director, said some of the items cited by staff — notably projects for artificial-intelligence pilots, data-privacy updates and verifiable digital credentials — are ongoing efforts with pending agency activity and contract obligations. Kennison warned that reallocation could jeopardize those projects and said the agency supports reporting updates but not repurposing funds without fuller project cost information.

Kennison highlighted the cybersecurity grant-match fund identified in staff materials. He said the remaining $3.6 million is intended as the state match on a federal cybersecurity grant with a performance period ending Aug. 31, 2029, and said reducing the match would reduce federal drawdown and impair the grant-funded program. GovOps also said funds earmarked for data-privacy system work and for verifiable digital credentials are either encumbered or necessary to implement prior legislation (House Bill 70, 2023, and follow-up work from S.B. 260) and asked the committee for time to provide detailed projections.

Yamboff told the committee the role of the funding-item follow-up report is to identify balances that the Legislature might consider for reallocation and to provide analysts' recommendations and agency responses for committee consideration during the session. Chair Thurston asked when the committee would decide on reallocation; staff said reallocation decisions would be made during early weeks of the legislative session and cautioned that the items are one-time funds.

Committee members did not reallocate funds at the meeting. Instead they asked agencies to return with project-level actuals and cost projections for items the committee may consider in session. GovOps agreed to provide updated project reports and cost estimates for the items identified by staff.