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Senators press staff for clarity on 'new' and 'vacant' FTE pool accounting during budget review
Summary
Committee members spent substantial time clarifying how the new and vacant FTE pools work: salaries are reduced in agency budgets and appropriation authority is moved to an OMB pool; agencies must request authority back and unused general‑fund authority returns to the general fund at the end of the biennium.
Committee members devoted a lengthy portion of the hearing to understanding the new and vacant FTE pools — a budgeting mechanism that removes salary dollars from individual agency budgets and places appropriation authority in an Office of Management and Budget pool.
Legislative and OMB staff explained that when agencies request full salary funding in their base budgets, leadership removes the portion associated with…
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