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Staff outlines program maintenance bills: 10 appropriations grouped by function; maintenance vs. enhancement defined
Summary
Budget staff described how JFAC will group and consider program maintenance appropriations into 10 functional bills, what belongs in program maintenance, and what will be handled in enhancement bills.
Budget staff told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee the planned approach for program maintenance appropriations is to group agencies into 10 functional bills and to treat certain recurring adjustments as "program maintenance" while leaving replacement items and population‑forecast adjustments to enhancement bills.
Keith Bybee, Division Manager of Budget Policy Analysis, said the 10 functional areas reflect practical separations: legislative and statewide elected officials are treated separately from executive branch general government; the Judicial…
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