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JFAC staff present program-maintenance packets and 'clear language' to bind agency spending
Summary
Legislative budget staff briefed JFAC on program-maintenance packets, a new committee column for recommendations and 'clear language' intended to make previously informal 'intent' directives enforceable in appropriation acts; staff said reappropriation (ARPA) and transfer exemptions appear across multiple agency bills.
Legislative Services Office budget staff walked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee through its program maintenance packets on Jan. 15, describing a new structure for committee review and a push to convert longstanding “intent” language into enforceable appropriation conditions.
Keith Bybee, division manager for budget policy analysis, showed committee members the packet format: a comparative page with a new third column for the committee’s recommendation (in addition to agency request and governor’s recommendation), background on maintenance adjustments, and a companion “clear language” package intended to specify conditions, limitations and restrictions tied to appropriations.
Bybee described…
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