House Appropriations adopts 12 technical amendments to FY26 budget bill

Madam Chair of the House Appropriations Committee on March 26 introduced and the committee approved a package of 12 technical amendments to the draft fiscal-year budget bill to correct program names, grammar, cross-references and dates.

The Joint Fiscal Office analyst Grady Nixon told the committee, “These are technical in nature,” and ran through each amendment: corrections to program and board names in the JFO Bud Plus report, hyphenation and apostrophe fixes, an updated program name, an authorization clarification for limited-service positions, a date change for a general assistance emergency housing provision, and several wording changes to align appropriation language across sections.

The amendments matter because they ensure the bill’s text aligns with implementing language elsewhere in the code and with program names used by state agencies. Several changes affect how appropriation language reads in web reports and how programs are referenced across the bill; one change shifts a program implementation date to July 1 to match FY26 parameters, and another clarifies that no…