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Joint finance committee approves technical correction to K‑12 health‑insurance per‑unit amount
Summary
The committee granted unanimous consent on Feb. 12 to correct the per‑support‑unit health‑insurance distribution amount for public schools to $21,902 in the program maintenance bill, a technical fix requested by Legislative Services to correct a rounding discrepancy.
Legislative Services budget staff identified a technical correction to the public schools program maintenance language and the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee approved the correction by unanimous consent during its Feb. 12 meeting.
Jared Tatro, Deputy Division Manager for Legislative Services’ Budget and Policy Analysis Division, told the committee that public schools receive an allocated dollar amount per support unit rather than a per‑full‑time‑position rate. The calculated distribution equaled $21,901.5 per support unit; the committee was asked to adopt the rounded amount of $21,902 so the Department of Education would have an exact dollar figure for distribution.
A committee cochair requested unanimous consent to accept the calculated per‑support‑unit health‑insurance amount and include $21,902 in the program maintenance bill. Hearing no objections, the chair ordered the correction.
Why it matters: the adjustment is technical — a rounding and language clarification — but the exact dollar figure must be in statute for the Department of Education to implement distributions to school support units.
