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Joint Legislative Budget Committee adopts rules, elects chair and vice chair; LAO briefs committee on role and workload
Summary
The Joint Legislative Budget Committee re-adopted its 2023 committee rules and elected its chair and vice chair by unanimous votes, then heard an overview from the Legislative Analyst's Office on its responsibilities, staffing and routine budget-notification reviews.
The Joint Legislative Budget Committee on Oct. 27, 2025, re-adopted its committee rules and unanimously elected a chair from the Senate and a vice chair from the Assembly, then received a briefing from the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) about the office’s mission, staffing and workload.
The actions came at the committee's first hearing of the session, held in the Swing Space, 1020 10th Street, Room 1200. The committee voted to readopt the 2023 rules and to elect Senator Richardson as chair and Assemblymember Gabriel as vice chair. Both motions passed on unanimous tallies recorded as 8-0 in the Senate and 7-0 in the Assembly.
The committee’s re-adoption of the rules preserves the existing procedures governing how it reviews midyear budget requests and agency reports. Hans Hayman, principal consultant for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, described the distribution process for budget-notification letters and said the committee…
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