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Wyoming appropriations committee examines governors veto of Section 307 transfer limits, plans executive-session sidebar on one exception
Summary
The Joint Appropriations Committee reviewed the governor's vetoes to the 2024 budget bill and focused on Section 307, a longstanding transfer limitation. State Budget Director Kevin Hibbert described an executive order that has had a similar effect and cited one instance where an exception was effectively applied.
The Joint Appropriations Committee spent its March 22 session reviewing gubernatorial vetoes to the 2024 budget bill and focused first on a veto to Section 307, a long-standing statutory limitation on agency transfers between certain appropriation series.
"Section 307 has been in, the budget for several decades in 1 form or another," said Mr. Richards, a committee staff member, urging the group to start with the provision because restoring it would permit seven conforming amendments elsewhere in the bill.
Section 307, as described by Richards, limits movement of nonfederal appropriations from the "100 series" to other…
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