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Appropriations Committee shifts FTE funding process, instructs members not to include equity pools in initial budget bills
Summary
Committee leadership told members the new and vacant FTE funding pool will be placed inside each agency budget rather than centrally with OMB, that equity funding requests should not be included in initial budget bills for 11 agencies, and that a 3% salary increase will apply to both new and existing FTEs in the first half of the biennium.
Chairman Beckettall used committee time to brief members on several procedural budget changes and scheduling notes for the current session. He said the committee will place new and vacant FTE funding directly into each agency’s budget rather than holding the funding centrally with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Agencies will be required to report to Legislative Council fiscal staff and to OMB when they access those funds.
Beckettall said the change is intended to remove paperwork and red tape that accompanied the prior approach, in which agencies had to request funding from a centralized OMB pool. He instructed members…
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