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House Appropriations committee debriefs Budget Adjustment Act, schedules markup and flags multiple funding questions
Summary
After a public hearing on the Budget Adjustment Act, the House Appropriations Committee set a timetable for markup and floor action and asked staff to clarify program-specific funding questions, including recovery center allocations, Medicaid reimbursement changes, Reach Up block grant accounting, transit deficits and delayed AHS contracts.
The House Appropriations Committee met on Jan. 14 to debrief testimony on the Budget Adjustment Act and to set a timeline for review and votes, the committee’s chair (Speaker 1) said. The panel will receive spreadsheets from the Joint Fiscal Office, hold a straw poll on Jan. 23 and aim for a committee vote the following Monday before floor consideration later that week.
The session focused on clarifying amounts and mechanisms rather than making policy decisions. “We’re not gonna make any decisions on it,” Speaker 1 said, describing the meeting as a chance to confirm numbers and identify outstanding questions. Committee members asked staff to gather more detailed spreadsheets and to follow up with agencies that testified at the public hearing.
Members flagged several substantive concerns that will require additional staff work. Committee members said recovery centers provided itemized…
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