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JFAC adopts FY2025 revenue number; FY2026 forecast unresolved as split votes leave committee without dual‑house majorities
Summary
The Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee adopted a $5.99 billion general‑fund revenue projection for fiscal 2025, but multiple competing FY2026 revenue proposals failed to secure the required majority in both chambers. The committee approved contract inflation and statewide cost allocation adjustments.
Idaho’s Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on Friday adopted a $5,990,000,000 general‑fund revenue projection for fiscal year 2025 based on the Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee recommendation, but it failed to set a revenue number for fiscal 2026 after a sequence of split votes.
Division Manager Keith Bybee of the Budget Policy Analysis Division outlined the revenue options and statewide decisions. For FY2025 he said the Economic Outlook committee recommended $5,999,000,000 and committee motioning settled on $5,990,000,000 for setting agency budgets. Senator Woodward moved adoption of that recommendation and the motion passed with a unanimous roll call: 10‑0 in the Senate and 10‑0 in the House, a 20‑0 final tally.
The FY2026 debate produced multiple proposals. The Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee had recommended a $6,400,000,000 projection; the governor’s recommended figure (used…
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