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Higher Ed Budget Committee amends state library recommendations, restores funds to FY2025 and trims FY2026 base payment
Summary
The Committee on Higher Education Budget restored $150,272 to the State Library’s FY2025 budget and adopted an amendment removing a $1,000 base payment for libraries in FY2026; the committee approved FY2025 as amended (vote recorded as 5–2) and approved FY2026 after amendment (amendment passed 4–3; final FY2026 tally not clearly recorded in the transcript).
The Committee on Higher Education Budget considered the State Library’s budget recommendations and took several amendments before approving FY2025 and FY2026 budget recommendations for referral to the House Appropriations Committee.
Representative Haskins offered an amendment to return previously reappropriated funds of $150,272 to the State Library’s FY2025 budget, saying the vendor had already been paid and that removing the reappropriation would harm the agency. "This is something that had already been approved and reappropriate. The vendor has already been paid and that money if we don't return it comes out of their general fund and that will just ultimately hurt the agency," Haskins said. The committee voted on that…
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