JFAC approves technical corrections to maintenance bills; corrects constitutional officers FTP cap
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The Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on Feb. 6 approved a set of narrowly targeted technical corrections to maintenance bills, including a program‑transfer fix for public schools to explicitly include the Idaho Digital Learning Academy and a correction to a health‑program appropriation reference, and corrected a typographical error setting the constitutional officers’ FTE cap to 431.9.
The Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on Feb. 6 approved a set of technical corrections to maintenance‑bill language the committee had approved earlier in the session, and corrected a typographical error in the full‑time equivalent (FTE) cap for constitutional officers.
Committee staff told members the edits were narrow fixes discovered while preparing the bills for floor printing. Jared Tetreault, deputy manager of the Budget Division with Legislative Services, said one change restores longstanding program‑transfer language for K‑12 so that transfers may occur between the newly separate Idaho Digital Learning Academy and other public‑school divisions. Alex Williamson, a budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, said a health‑program provision was referencing the wrong appropriation and needed to be updated to point to the maintenance bill section where the funds are now housed.
A third fix corrected a typographical error in the constitutional officers’ program maintenance table. Keith Bybee, division manager for budget policy analysis, told the committee the intended FTE cap was 431.9 but a digit had been transcribed incorrectly in the motion language.
The committee used unanimous consent to adopt the public‑schools and health‑program language corrections. The FTE cap correction was moved and carried by roll call; committee staff reported the motion passed with 20 ayes, 0 nays, 0 absent/excused and the committee instructed staff to carry the corrected language forward as part of the maintenance packages going to the floor.
Committee members recessed discussion of larger policy items until floor consideration; staff said these edits will appear in the final maintenance bills the Legislature considers.