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House Appropriations previews H.883 budget, restores childcare base funding
Summary
At a March 27 caucus, Representative Diane Lanfer said the HouseAppropriations Committeerecommendation for H.883 (FY25) differs from the governor's proposal by about 0.2 percentage points and restores $9 million in base childcare payroll-tax funding while preserving a $10 million FY24 one-time reduction as a separate line.
Representative Diane Lanfer, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, told members March 27 that H.883 is the FY25 budget and that the committee kept its proposal tightly within projected revenues, producing "about 2 tenths of a percent" difference from the governor's recommendation. "It's literally just about no difference between us," Lanfer said, adding the committee prioritized honoring prior commitments.
Lanfer said the committee restored $9,000,000 in base childcare funding that the governor had proposed to remove from the payroll-tax-funded line. She explained the distinction between a $10,000,000 FY24 one-time childcare item the governor proposed to take back and the…
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