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JFAC sets program‑maintenance budgets and explains process for FY2026
Summary
Committee approved program‑maintenance budgets across multiple agencies and heard staff explain the budgeting process (base budget → decision units → program maintenance). Several agency maintenance budgets and associated language were approved by roll call.
The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee approved program‑maintenance budgets on Jan. 17 for a range of state functional areas and received a staff briefing on how the maintenance budgets are constructed.
Mr. Bybee and other Legislative Services staff told the committee that a program maintenance budget starts with the FY2026 base (the ongoing authorization from previous sessions), removes one‑time funding, and then adds incremental statewide decision units such as contract inflation and statewide cost allocations. Mr. Bybee said the statewide program maintenance total in one of the materials was approximately $12.6 billion when showing a full statewide front‑end view.
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