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Legislative analysts outline technical corrections to FY2025 budgets including broadband, CAFO and health payments
Summary
Janet Jessup, a Legislative Services budget analyst, presented three technical fiscal‑year‑2025 corrections: moving broadband monies into a new Commerce broadband program, fixing a drafting error that altered a $2 million CAFO transfer, and reclassifying two Health and Welfare payments from trustee and benefit payments to operating expenditures.
Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee that staff identified technical corrections to fiscal year 2025 budget paperwork that the committee will consider at a subsequent vote.
Jessup said the Department of Commerce has two budgeted programs, a commerce program and a broadband program created last year to increase transparency for broadband spending; monies that were reappropriated in FY2025 were placed in the commerce program instead of the new broadband program and staff are moving those amounts between programs so the accounting “nets to zero.”
She also described a drafting error affecting a $2,000,000 transfer to the confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) improvement fund handled through the Department of Environmental Quality. Jessup said the bill language referenced the DEQ general fund bucket rather than a Treasury general fund transfer, which resulted in DEQ using its DEQ general fund balances and left CAFO without the intended transfer. The correction would “make the agency whole” by replacing those DEQ general fund monies.
Finally, Jessup said two adjustments are needed in the Department of Health and Welfare: monies budgeted to trustee and benefit payments that are actually third‑party contract payments should be moved into operating expenditures. Because language in the Health and Welfare bill limited the agency’s authority to move money out of trustee and benefit payments, the Legislature must approve the reclassification. Each of these changes, she said, is net zero within the statewide totals.
Chairman Groh and committee members thanked staff for the review and were told the technical corrections would be taken up at the committee’s vote the following day.
No formal committee action on these corrections was recorded in the transcript during this meeting; Jessup asked for questions and said staff will be available when members vote.
