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JFAC staff outlines program-maintenance bills and warns sales-tax distributions cut into general fund flexibility
Summary
Budget staff described how program maintenance bills will be organized and said statutory sales-tax distributions and earmarks have reduced the portion of sales tax that flows to the general fund, limiting flexibility in downturns.
Keith Bybee, Division Manager of Budget Policy Analysis, briefed JFAC on the structure and timing of program maintenance appropriations bills and on recent trends in sales-tax distributions that constrain the general fund.
How maintenance bills are organized: Bybee said JFAC will group program maintenance work into 10 appropriation bills (for example, general government, judicial branch, public safety, health and human services, natural resources, public school support, and state Board of Education agencies). Program maintenance will incorporate the baseline budget plus cost adjustments that the committee considers recurring, including employee compensation (CEC adjustments), statewide cost allocation (SWCAP), contract inflation, and benefit-cost adjustments such as health insurance and PERSI…
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