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Panel advances House Bill 1023 after debate over PERSLink funding, new FTEs and IT costs
Summary
The Government Operations Division approved amendment 25.0161S to House Bill 1023 and moved the bill with a unanimous 7–0 committee vote. Discussion focused on a $3.155 million special-fund increase, two new FTEs, a $539,595 one-time PERSLink IT contract package, and operating and rent increases.
At a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee’s Government Operations Division (date not specified), the committee voted unanimously to adopt an amendment to House Bill 1023 and to give the bill a do-pass recommendation as amended.
Representative Kemptnick, the bill carrier, walked members through amendment 25.0167 0.01001 (recorded in the transcript as 25.0167 0.01001 and later referenced in committee paperwork as 25.0161S when moved). He summarized the package as an increase in special funds totaling $3,155,508, including salary increases, additions to the new-and-vacant FTE pool, operating expense increases, two new FTEs and one-time IT funding for the agency’s PERSLink project. He said the package includes two new positions categorized in testimony as an accounting position and an enrollment…
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