Joint Budget Committee limits "like-purpose" transfers and approves $750,000 utilities reduction
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.
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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.
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