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Judicial branch: committee adds funds for Judicial Council; approves fee changes and a back-of-budget cut
Summary
Lawmakers moved funding changes for the Judicial Council after staff flagged an apparent shortfall in the governor's budget for the public defender program, agreed to add approximately $1.79 million and a footnote for a clinical program, and separately approved a package of fee shifts and a back-of-the-budget reduction to the judicial branch.
A House subcommittee unanimously approved an amended Judicial Council allocation after lawmakers were told a likely clerical discrepancy left the public defender program underfunded by roughly $1.77 million.
Representative Ebel and Judicial Council representatives told the subcommittee that the governor's proposed HB 1 figures did not incorporate all HB 2 and HB 1 funding sources when calculating the intended increase for public defenders, creating a shortfall. "I really wanna bring the committee's attention to that discrepancy because it's a large discrepancy for the public defender…
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