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Joint Budget Committee limits "like-purpose" transfers and approves $750,000 utilities reduction
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee voted to direct staff to amend statute to bar transfers between personal services and operating expense line items and approved a $750,000 one-time reduction to DOC utilities; the committee also asked staff to draft broader roll‑forward reform for the long bill.
The Joint Budget Committee voted 5-0, with member Taggart excused, to adopt a staff recommendation clarifying that personal services and operating expenses are not "like purposes" and to prohibit the Department of Corrections from using the like-purpose transfer authority unless explicitly approved in a long-bill footnote.
The action, moved by Representative Julie Sirota, also included approval of a $750,000 one-time reduction in the Department of Corrections' utilities appropriation and direction for staff to draft legislation striking statutory roll-forward authority for utilities across agencies. Justin Braque, Joint Budget Committee staff, said the change should be incorporated into an…
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