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JFAC staff outlines program-maintenance bill structure; flags sales-tax distributions, Techum earmark and revenue volatility
Summary
Keith Bybee, Division Manager of Budget Policy Analysis, briefed JFAC on the program maintenance bill structure, schedule and how statutory sales-tax distributions and earmarks reduce the portion of sales tax available to the general fund.
Keith Bybee, Division Manager of Budget Policy Analysis, briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on the structure, contents and schedule for the program maintenance appropriations bills and explained how statutory sales-tax distributions affect the general fund.
Bybee said the program maintenance bills are organized into 10 functional areas of state government and include adjustments such as benefit-cost changes (including items from the CEC recommendation), contract inflation, statewide cost allocation and CEC items. He explained that enhancements (the separate bills) will contain replacement items, population-forecast adjustments (formerly labelled nondiscretionary), and new or expanded requests.
"The maintenance budgets will include beginning with the base budget's building blocks'so that's Benchmark Number 4, and everything in between Benchmark 4 and Benchmark…
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