JFAC approves program maintenance budgets across agencies; roll-call votes recorded

The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on Jan. 17 reviewed and approved program maintenance budgets and standard appropriation language for multiple functional areas and agencies. Committee members completed roll-call votes on individual budgets and on the standard language sections that typically accompany these maintenance appropriations.

Committee staff framed the program maintenance package as setting each agency’s ongoing base budget (the ‘‘base’’) plus agreed statewide decision units such as contract inflation and statewide cost allocation. The action generally does not create new ongoing programs; it sets continuing operating budgets derived from prior legislative authorizations, adjusted to remove one-time items and to add standard…