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Pro Tem and fiscal staff outline plan to restructure the General Appropriations Act; committee to consider LOI
Summary
Senator Chris Carr and Bureau of Finance and Management director Steven Koehler discussed a plan to reform how the General Appropriations Act (G Bill) is structured and presented; the committee directed staff to draft a letter of intent to review the G Bill format and implement changes over the interim.
Senator Chris Carr (president pro tempore) and Steven Koehler of the Bureau of Finance and Management presented a proposal to the Joint Committee on Appropriations to review and redesign the format of the General Appropriations Act (the G Bill) to improve transparency and clarity about legislative intent and program-level funding.
Carr said the current G Bill resembles "basically an Excel spreadsheet with a bunch of numbers" and proposed breaking the bill out by program to show where dollars are appropriated…
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