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Appropriations conferees offer two negotiation packages, prioritize education and EDIF items
Summary
Conferees on the Committee on Appropriations presented two package offers — Package A (education) and Package B (EDIF/technology) — as their positions for ongoing budget negotiations, detailing funding sources and agency positions but recording no formal votes.
Chair, Committee on Appropriations, told conferees that they were presenting two packages as their offer for ongoing negotiations: package A covering unresolved education items across fiscal years 2025–2027, and package B covering items tied to the Economic Development Initiatives Fund (EDIF) and certain technology projects.
The packages are intended as the committee's starting positions for conferrees on the floor and in subsequent negotiations. Chair said the blue sheets will reference the packages and explained that package A includes unresolved education items for fiscal 2025, 2026 and 2027 while package B groups items that reference EDIF, including several technology modernization projects.
Vice Chair Williams said the committee intends to fund…
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