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Senate Finance committee removes marked budget items, debates insurer assessment for children’s behavioral health
Summary
At a Senate Finance Committee budget work session, senators voted to delete items flagged for removal from the recap packet, denied several restoration and staffing requests and directed analysts to provide fiscal analyses — including for Senate Bill 128, which would assess insurers to fund children's behavioral-health services.
The Senate Finance Committee met in a budget work session and voted to remove all items marked "delete" from its recap packet, denied a request to restore a legislative back-of-budget cut, rejected a request for an additional treasurer staff position and adopted an amendment to suspend revenue sharing, while asking staff for further fiscal analyses of several bills including Senate Bill 128.
The actions followed a brief executive-session call at the start of the meeting. After returning to open session, the chair introduced a packet labeled the "recap sheet" that lists agency requests and corresponding amendments for senators to review.
Committee staff told members the packet is intended as daily guidance through budget work sessions and that items marked "delete" in the status column could be restored later if members requested it. The committee voted to delete all items so listed after…
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