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Appropriations committee removes cash-fund language (section 78) from budget adjustment for separate policy review
Summary
Legislators agreed to remove proposed language in section 78 that would change cash-fund rules, after the corrections and institutions chair and legal counsel advised the change was a policy decision rather than a technical fix.
The House Appropriations Committee agreed on Jan. 31 to remove proposed language in section 78 from the budget-adjustment bill after the chair of Corrections and Institutions and that office's legal counsel said the change would be more than a technical edit and raised policy questions.
Members cited advice from committee staff that the proposed cash-fund language required a substantive policy decision and should be considered in either the capital bill or a later omnibus bill rather than in the PAA. The transcript records a written response from the Corrections and Institutions chair, who asked that the committee not include the proposed language in the BAA and instead allow relevant committees to work through the policy implications.
Committee members noted that capital allocations and cash-fund authorities often carry multi-year deadlines and oversight processes, and that the change warranted additional committee conversation before being enacted.
