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Staff outline deficiency warrants and supplemental requests as committee begins budget work
Summary
Kellen McGurkin (LSO) briefed JFAC on statutory deficiency warrants, their typical uses (fire suppression, pest control, dam safety), recent upward trend in requests and the governor's supplemental totals for the session.
Kellen McGurkin, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee on Jan. 7 that deficiency warrants let certain agencies spend against the general fund for specified purposes before a formal appropriation, and that supplementals are ordinary appropriations for the current fiscal year.
Lede/nut graf: Deficiency warrants are statutory exceptions that allow agencies to respond quickly to urgent costs such as dam safety, fire suppression and pest control without a prior appropriation; agencies that use the authority later come to the committee for a general-fund appropriation to zero out the balance. Supplementals, by contrast, are appropriation adjustments to the current fiscal year…
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