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Appropriations committee advances legislative-branch budget after questions about annex furniture and cash-fund transfers
Summary
The committee approved Senate Bill 188, the legislative-branch appropriations measure, sending it to the Committee of the Whole after sponsors described cuts and a planned transfer from the legislative department cash fund to ease general-fund pressure.
The House Appropriations Committee voted 8-3 to advance Senate Bill 188, the legislative-branch budget, after discussion about cash-fund transfers and a large line item for annex furniture.
Speaker McCleskey and Majority Leader Duran presented the budget package and said leadership and agency directors had reduced spending across the branch. The package includes a net general-fund reduction of about $2.5 million and proposed transfers from the legislative department cash fund to lower general-fund pressure; the sponsors described a roughly 4.3 million transfer in the initial materials with the Senate later adding $1 million, which the House sought…
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