Senate Appropriations reviews House changes to FY2025 Budget Adjustment Act

Emily Burns, deputy financial officer and analyst at the Joint Fiscal Office, briefed the Senate Appropriations Committee on the House amendments to the FY2025 Budget Adjustment Act, walking members through a line-by-line spreadsheet that compared the House position with the governor's recommendations.

"I'm here to walk through this sort of big spreadsheet that gives you the overview of what the house did as compared to the governor's recommend," Burns told the committee, presenting two companion documents: a condensed list of changes and a larger governor-tracked budget document.

The Joint Fiscal Office briefing summarized the top-line figures the committee used in its review. The FY2025 base appropriations as passed were described in the briefing as roughly $2.1 billion in recurring appropriations plus additional items that brought the subtotal to about $2.4 billion before the current adjustment exercise. On the adjustment proposals, Burns said the governor's recommended one-time changes (GovRec) totaled about $22 million, while the House's adjustments totaled about $38 million — a difference the analyst described as roughly $15 million.

Burns explained…