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Committee OKs continuing resolution to maintain agency spending through Sept. 15, 2025
Summary
The Capital Construction Subcommittee's continuing resolution (Senate Bill 5,546) was reported out to allow agencies without adopted budgets to continue to spend at one-eighth of prior biennium levels through Sept. 15, 2025; the Department of Administrative Services will set specific amounts by rule.
Senator Gerard presented Senate Bill 5,546, the continuing resolution measure that gives temporary spending authority to agencies that do not have a legislatively adopted budget in place by the end of the current authority period.
The nut graf: The continuing resolution provides agencies without adopted budgets temporary authority to continue operations at a level equal to one-eighth of the prior biennium's spending until a budget is adopted; the authority is authorized through Sept. 15, 2025, and the Department of Administrative Services will determine amounts by administrative rule.
Senator Gerard, Senator (presenter), said the continuing resolution is enacted each odd-numbered session to prevent an operational funding gap. "Absent a continuing resolution, agencies without a 2025–27 biennial budget signed by the Governor would be unable to spend beyond that date," he said, and the subcommittee recommended the bill be amended by the -1 amendment and reported out due pass as amended.
The committee approved the measure with no substantive debate recorded in the transcript; members discussed that amounts authorized during the continuing resolution count toward the total 2025–27 budget.
Outcome: Capital Construction Subcommittee recommended SB 5,546 be amended by the -1 amendment and reported out due pass as amended; committee approved the recommendation.
Ending: The continuing resolution secures interim authority for agency operations and directs the Department of Administrative Services to set spending amounts by rule.
