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LSO explains decision-unit budget model and how JFAC will move from base to FY2026 original appropriation
Summary
Legislative Services Office explained that Idaho's budget process uses a decision-unit model: starting from last year's original appropriation, applying executive adjustments and base resets, then moving to program-maintenance and enhancement proposals to set the next year's original appropriation.
Deputy director Jared Tetrault of the Legislative Services Office walked committee members through the state's decision-unit budget model and the practical steps JFAC will use to set FY2026 appropriations.
Method and benchmarks: Tetrault described six benchmarks analysts use each fiscal cycle. Benchmark 1 is the prior-year original appropriation; subsequent steps incorporate reappropriations, executive carry forward, midyear transfers, and anticipated expenditures for the current…
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