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Conference committee approves H.141 conference report; $133,700,000 moved to cash fund for FY2026
Summary
A legislative conference committee approved the H.141 FY2025 budget adjustment conference report after agreeing to timing shifts for two positions, a transfer of $133,700,000 into a cash fund for use in fiscal 2026, and changes to treasurer reversion amounts, committee staff said.
A legislative conference committee approved the H.141 FY2025 Budget Adjustment Act conference report after agreeing to several technical funding and language changes, including a transfer of $133,700,000 into a cash fund to be used in fiscal 2026, committee staff said.
Committee staff said the agreement also reprioritized timing for two funded positions and changed the amount reverting from the treasurer's office, bringing the FY2025 balance close to zero. The committee approved the report on a roll-call vote that committee staff summarized as 5-1-0.
Emily Burton of the Joint Fiscal Office told the committee the spreadsheet members used to review changes shows two base-funding timing changes: the funded position in the attorney general's office and a position at the Human Rights Commission were pushed out. Burton said those changes appear on the spreadsheet at line 12 and line 18.
Burton also described a transfer to a cash fund: "the $133,700,000 that was on the bottom line ... will be transferred into the cash fund and then utilized in FY 2026 budget construct," she said. The transfer was described as moving monies into the cash fund subaccount identified by staff as the "other infrastructure essential investments and reserves fund," which committee staff said has a separate fund code.
On reversions, committee staff described a change from earlier language. At one point in the discussion staff said the conference committee agreed to leave $4,000,000 in the treasurer's office rather than revert the full $6,000,000. Later in the transcript staff reference a reversion amount being "bumped down to 2,000,000" on page 39. The transcript contains both references; the committee-approved report as presented to members led staff to say the FY2025 balance was "just about 0." The record supplied to the committee should be consulted for the final numeric reconciliation.
Members noted a preference to remove a confusing line labeled "total reserve" (line 93 on the spreadsheet) so the public presentation will not include that line. Committee staff also reported nonfinancial language changes: section number updates and numeric adjustments in the attorney general's office (section 3), numeric changes reflected in sections 9 and 10, transfer language in section 53, and reversion language in section 54. Staff also flagged language changes beginning on the bottom of page 72 and continuing to page 73 related to SNAP discretion and exemption language, and an update to the effective-dates section on page 79.
A member moved to approve "the report of the committee" as presented. The clerk conducted a roll-call that the committee summarized as a 5-1-0 vote. Committee staff noted Senator Brock as the member who voted no; the transcript does not record the full list of yes votes by name. Committee officers completed signature copies following the vote.
The approval finalizes the conference committee's reconciled version of H.141 for the committee's procedural purposes; the transcript records staff guidance on where the numeric and language edits appear in the bill text and the agreed transfers and reversion changes that affect the FY2025 bottom line. The committee did not, in the recorded discussion, state further implementation steps beyond completing signature copies and updating the bill text and spreadsheets for the record.
