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JFAC staff present program-maintenance packets and new 'clear language' approach for appropriations
Summary
Committee staff previewed program-maintenance packets across state government, outlined three common categories of appropriation language (exemptions from transfer limits, reappropriations, and conditions/limitations), and said the committee will vote on maintenance budgets and associated language in upcoming sessions.
Keith Bybee, division manager of budget policy analysis for the Legislative Services Office, and committee chairs outlined the packet structure and a new emphasis on clearer appropriation language during the Jan. 15 Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee hearing.
Bybee told members that each program-maintenance packet contains a comparative analysis of agency requests, the governor's recommendation and a placeholder for the committee's recommendation. He explained…
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