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Legislative staff present technical corrections to FY2025 appropriations; votes scheduled
Summary
Legislative Services staff outlined three technical corrections in the FY2025 “yellow packet” affecting the Department of Commerce, the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health and Welfare; the committee was scheduled to vote on the corrections the following day.
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, briefed the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on three technical corrections to fiscal year 2025 appropriation tables that staff placed in the meeting’s yellow packet.
Jessup said the first correction fixes where broadband-related monies were recorded. “The monies when in fiscal year 2025 were reappropriated into the commerce program, not the broadband program,” she said, and staff are moving the dollars into the newly created broadband program “so that those broadband costs can continue to be tracked.”
The second correction relates to a drafting error in a transfer to the CAFO improvement fund. Jessup said the statute’s drafting named the Department of Environmental Quality general fund as the source, which caused intended general‑fund dollars not to be transferred into the CAFO fund as intended and instead drew down DEQ general‑fund allocations for other DEQ uses. The proposed correction would “make the agency whole and replace those DEQ general fund monies that were transferred to the CAFO fund,” Jessup said.
The third correction moves amounts appropriated to trustee-and-benefit-payments into operating expenditures for two Department of Health and Welfare programs — the substance-abuse treatment and prevention program and the physical-health services program — because the payments are contract payments to third parties. Jessup said the agency’s bill language had restricted moving money out of trustee-and-benefit-payments, so the legislature must make the change.
Chairman Groh thanked staff for the work compiling and checking the packet and noted the committee would vote on the technical corrections at its next meeting. “Tomorrow, we’ll vote on these changes,” he said.
The committee did not take final action on the corrections during this session; votes were scheduled for the committee’s next day of business.
Ending: The three items Jessup described were presented as net‑zero technical fixes to reclassify or move previously appropriated dollars; the committee planned to vote on them the next day.
