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Legislative staff outline technical corrections to FY2025 budgets including broadband, CAFO and health payments
Summary
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, told the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee that staff identified three technical corrections to fiscal 2025 appropriations: moving broadband receipts into a dedicated commerce broadband program, restoring a $2 million CAFO transfer that was left out by drafting error, and reclassifying certain Health and Welfare vendor payments from trustee and benefit payments into operating.
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, told the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on Friday that staff identified a set of technical corrections to spending for fiscal year 2025. Jessup said the changes are procedural adjustments meant to make agency budgets accurate before the committee votes on them.
Jessup said one correction moves previously reappropriated dollars out of the Department of Commerce's commerce program and into a recently created broadband program so broadband spending can be separately tracked. She said the two table adjustments net to zero because the money is shifted between programs within the same agency to improve transparency.
Jessup also outlined a drafting error in legislation that left a $2 million transfer to the CAFO (confined animal feeding operations) improvement fund in fiscal 2025 unmade. She said the bill language had referenced the Department of Environmental Quality's internal general fund bucket rather than the larger state general fund, so DEQ had instead used DEQ general fund dollars to backfill other DEQ obligations. The proposed correction would restore the DEQ general fund amounts that were moved to CAFO.
A third correction would reclassify certain Department of Health and Welfare payments that were budgeted to trustee and benefit payments into operating expenditures because those vendor payments are third-party contract payments and belong in operating. Jessup said both of those reclassifications net to zero and are requested because the Department's bill language restricted moving money out of trustee and benefit payments, so legislative action is required.
Jessup paused for questions after each explanation and noted agency and legislative staff would be available if members wanted follow-up. Committee members thanked staff for the review and were told the committee will vote on the corrections the following day.
