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Joint Budget Committee trims ProStart line, recognizes CBMS development shortfall and advances capital, IT and DOC changes
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee on March 25 voted to annualize a hospitality education (ProStart) line back toward prior-year levels, accepted a staff correction adding reappropriated CBMS development funds to a comeback, approved capital and IT project priorities including controlled maintenance and IT capital lists, and gave staff authority to amend DOC’s C Tower language with guardrails and a June 30, 2027 repeal date.
The Joint Budget Committee voted on March 25 to reduce a recent one‑time increase to the hospitality education ProStart grant and to accept staff technical corrections that increase the recognized fiscal impact of a healthcare IT comeback for CBMS development.
Chair opened the session and staff moved through the committee’s “periwinkle” comeback packet. Miss Kanagaraja (JBC staff) told the committee the Hospitality Education Grant (ProStart) had been annualized on the floor last year from $420,000 to $500,000 and recommended reversing the annualization error. Representative Serota said she appreciated program beneficiaries but called the grant a “nice to have” in a year of broader cuts. Madam Vice Chair moved the staff recommendation to annualize the line to roughly last year’s level and the motion passed unanimously, 6–0.
Tom Dermody (JBC staff) notified members of a technical omission in comeback 34 for Health Care Policy and Financing:…
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