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JBC restores funding after staff'identified inadvertent reversion of a 2023 higher-education appropriation

2657746 · March 14, 2025
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Summary

Committee approved restoring an appropriation that the Department of Higher Education inadvertently allowed to revert at the end of FY2024; staff will correct the fiscal-year accounting to reflect the multi-year intent of House Bill 23-1246.

The committee voted to correct an accounting error that created an apparent reversion in funds from House Bill 23-1246. That bill appropriated $43.6 million on a one-time basis across multiple fiscal years for in-demand workforce training and financial aid administered in partnership with the community college system. The Department of Higher Education did not file the roll-forward paperwork in the required format, which left the…

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