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Co-chairs outline new 'clear language' approach to maintenance budgets; committee to vote on language Tuesday/Friday
Summary
Committee staff previewed maintenance budget packets and a new approach to statutory/intent language that the co-chairs describe as binding rather than advisory. Members asked about authority to change past language and requested time to review packet language prior to votes.
Keith Bybee of the Legislative Services Office walked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee through the program maintenance budget packet format for FY2026 on Jan. 15 and described what staff labeled “clear language” — condition, limitation and restriction language included in maintenance appropriations that specifies how the legislature expects funds to be used.
Bybee said each packet includes comparative budget tables, a place for the committee’s recommendation, and a standard set of language categories: exemptions from Idaho Code limitations on transfers between expenditure…
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