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Conference committee reviews House and Senate differences in House Bill 2,007 budget
Summary
The Committee on Appropriations reviewed a conference comparison of House Bill 2,007 on Oct. 27, highlighting differences between House and Senate budget positions on state operating lapses, the budget stabilization fund, higher-education bonding, KBI headquarters bonding, health-care rate increases and other line items.
The Committee on Appropriations on Oct. 27 reviewed a conference comparison showing how the House and Senate positions differ across the provisions of House Bill 2,007.
Dylan Dear, assistant director for fiscal affairs, presented the comparison and the method used to display differences. "So some of the Senate positions will look different from the Senate shorthand. Because the Senate shorthand was differences from the House. But when we put this together, all Senate positions are differences from House Bill 2,007 as introduced," Dear said, explaining the report shows the full fiscal effect of each change.
The presentation flagged several statewide and agency-level differences. Dear gave a specific example on operating-lapse percentages: "The House is at 1.5%. The Senate is at 3% operating expenditure reduction. And so, you see the $35,000,000 effect in the House and the $70,000,000 effect in the Senate." The committee discussion…
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