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JFAC briefed on deficiency warrants and supplementals; committee told definition, uses and constitutional emergency clause
Summary
Kellen McGurkin explained deficiency warrants, supplementals and rescissions, highlighting statutory limits, typical uses (fire suppression, pest control), rising use and the constitutional emergency clause that makes some adjustments immediate when needed.
Kellen McGurkin, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee on Jan. 7 that deficiency warrants permit specified agencies to spend against the general fund for limited, statutorily authorized purposes without a prior appropriation and that supplementals are ordinary appropriations that change the current fiscal year budget.
"Deficiency warrants allow select agencies to spend monies against the general fund for select purposes as authorized in statute without a prior appropriation," McGurkin said. He compared them to a credit-card authority that agencies later clear by coming to the committee for an appropriation to zero out the…
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