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Legislators press for clearer reporting on continuously appropriated funds, cash balances
Summary
Legislative staff described how continuously appropriated funds work, highlighted reporting challenges and recommended clearer appropriation language and more visible reporting of off-budget cash that flows through state funds.
Legislative fiscal staff briefed the Joint Legislative Sessions on continuously appropriated funds and statewide cash balances, warning that significant sums flow outside the annual appropriation process and that reporting gaps make oversight harder.
Presenters explained that a continuous appropriation lets an agency spend from a fund without an annual appropriation line; spending is limited by cash available and statutory rules, not by a single-year appropriation. Brett Butcher and staff described the strategic initiatives fund and the state lottery fund as examples…
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