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Idaho Finance Department requests six new examiners; governor declines two consumer-investigator positions
Summary
The Department of Finance presented a base-budget review and asked for six new full-time positions to boost IT, cybersecurity and examination capacity. The governor recommended most requests but left out two Financial Investigator 3 positions for the Consumer Finance Bureau.
The Department of Finance asked the Joint Finance Appropriations Committee on Jan. 21 for six new full-time positions and $816,600 drawn from the agency’s state regulatory funds to expand examination and cybersecurity capacity.
Noah Peterson, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, reviewed the agency’s request and noted the Department of Finance is organized as one program with three bureaus — the Financial Institutions Bureau, the Consumer Finance Bureau and the Securities Bureau — and has 72 full-time personnel. Peterson said the materials and line-item numbers are in the legislative budget book (LBB pages 5-025B and 5-0025C).
The agency proposed six…
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