Appropriations committee revises FY26 draft: treasurer item cut, $103M in one-time asks, $5.19M shortfall remains

The Appropriations Committee met April 18 to review a consolidated set of Budget Adjustment Act (BAA) changes and the FY26 budget proposal, with staff presenting line-by-line adjustments to base and one‑time appropriations and revenue assumptions.

Fiscal staff said the committee will remove a previously listed $14,000,000 appropriation to the State Treasurer and update reversion dates for municipal flood‑impact grants. Committee fiscal staff also reported moving multiple BAA amendments into other sections of the large bill (including transportation and the capital bill) or removing them where duplicative, and said remaining BAA language will appear together in a new “F” section at the end of the bill.

Why it matters: the review reallocates and reconsolidates dozens of small and mid‑size items, clarifies whether funding is treated as base budget or one‑time, and sets the committee’s starting point for forthcoming negotiations with the House, Senate and administration.

What staff presented and what the committee discussed

Grady Nixon, fiscal office staff, summarized the structural edits proposed for the BAA: certain section amendments (for example, sections described in the meeting as moved from the original H.489 BAA text) will be consolidated into specific sections of the large bill; a treasurer appropriation will be removed; and some prior‑year reserve language will be eliminated. Nixon also flagged that language changing “DigSafe” statutory notice from 48 to 72 hours is being carried in the transportation bill and therefore will be removed from the BAA text to avoid duplication.

Emily Burn, fiscal staff, guided the committee through three consolidated sheets: FY25 carry‑forwards, base…