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JFAC staff outline maintenance budget packets, ‘clear language’ and reappropriation authority ahead of votes
Summary
Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee staff walked members through maintenance budget packets, explaining standard ‘clear language’ (conditions, limitations, restrictions), reappropriation authority for multi-year projects and the committee's discretion to change language or funding during budget votes.
Keith Bybee, division manager of budget policy analysis for the Legislative Services Office, briefed the Joint Finance and Appropriation Committee on Jan. 15 about the format and intent of program maintenance budget packets that the committee will vote on during budget-setting. Bybee emphasized three categories of language the committee will see across maintenance bills: exemptions from statutory transfer restrictions (Idaho Code §67-3511), reappropriation authority (carryover), and…
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