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Staff outlines program maintenance process; sales-tax distributions shrinking share to general fund
Summary
Budget staff outlined a 10-bill program-maintenance approach for setting the state's baseline budgets and showed statutory sales-tax distributions are leaving a smaller share for the general fund, a trend staff warned could constrain appropriations in a downturn.
Keith Bybee, Division Manager of Budget Policy Analysis, briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on the program maintenance appropriation bills, the decision units that make up those bills, the upcoming hearing schedule and a related review of sales-tax distributions that affect the general fund.
Why it matters: Program maintenance decisions determine the baseline "ongoing" spending levels the Legislature must either fund, adjust or override before considering new (enhancement) requests. At the same time, statutory sales-tax distributions increasingly divert a larger share of gross sales-tax collections away from the general fund, which reduces the amount available for appropriation.
Program maintenance structure and schedule: Bybee explained staff organized program maintenance into 10 functional appropriation bills (examples: General Government; Judicial Branch; Public Safety; Health & Human…
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