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Committee briefed on deficiency warrants, supplementals and emergency clause; pest-control warrants have grown
Summary
Budget staff explained the statutory authority for deficiency warrants (allowing certain agencies to spend from the general fund for specified purposes before an appropriation), described common uses (dam safety, fire suppression, pest control), and summarized the governor's current supplemental recommendation totals.
Kellen McGurkin, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee that deficiency warrants permit certain agencies to spend against the general fund for narrowly authorized purposes without a prior appropriation; the body then appropriates funds later to zero out the outstanding balance.
"Deficiency warrants allow select agencies to spend monies against the general fund for select purposes as authorized in statute without a prior appropriation," McGurkin said.
Authorized uses and oversight
McGurkin told members the legislature has limited the statute-authorized purposes for deficiency-warrant spending to items such as dam safety, fire suppression…
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