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JFAC approves technical corrections and program-maintenance budgets across state government
Summary
The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on Jan. 17 adopted technical corrections, reappropriations and program-maintenance budgets for numerous agencies, approving transfers including a $291.737 million broadband reappropriation and clearing maintenance budgets for public schools, health and human services and multiple functional areas.
The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee on Jan. 17 voted to approve a slate of technical corrections, reappropriations and program-maintenance budgets affecting multiple state agencies.
Committee actions included correcting where previously reappropriated funds had been placed, reauthorizing unspent one‑time funds, and setting program‑maintenance appropriations (base budgets plus statewide cost allocation and any contract inflation already approved). Several motions passed unanimously; a handful of larger maintenance budgets were approved without extended debate.
Why it matters: these votes establish the baseline operating budgets used by agencies in the coming year and clean up accounting or fund‑assignment errors from prior sessions. The committee moved money between appropriation units to align funds with the offices or programs that will now administer them (for example, broadband funds moved into the Broadband Office so those monies are tracked in a single program). These are primarily housekeeping and baseline appropriation…
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