Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee adjourns to prepare Senate version of budget bill; Thursday session canceled

An unidentified member of the Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee said the panel recessed its meeting after presentations from finance staff and would reconvene to prepare a Senate version of the budget bill.

"We recessed our meeting with the Department of Finance and OGM, with intent to come back at 01:30," the unidentified committee member said, adding thanks to agencies that had worked with the committee on fiscal affairs, the Department of Finance, grants management and OMB for presentations and budget projections.

The member said a previously announced Thursday session will be canceled because of scheduling conflicts and that formal notification of the cancellation would be issued. The member also said the committee would adjourn the current meeting to allow members time to work on a Senate draft of the budget bill.

A motion to adjourn was made and seconded; members voted verbally "aye," and the chair declared the motion carried. No roll-call vote or individual tallies were provided in the transcript.

The committee's remarks were procedural: they thanked staff and outside agencies for presentations, signaled the cancellation of a planned Thursday session, and formally adjourned to permit drafting of a Senate budget bill. No final votes or decisions on the content of the budget bill were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.

The committee did not provide dates, vote counts, or names for the members who moved or seconded the adjournment in the excerpted record. The transcript also did not include a timetable for when members would next meet to work on the Senate version of the budget bill.