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Social Services panel approves chair's prioritized funding lists, sends them to EAC with several amendments
Summary
The Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee on Feb. 9 approved the chair's prioritized ongoing, one-time and opioid-settlement funding lists and will forward them to the Executive Appropriations Committee, after voting to add victim-services funding, reduce an AI vault request, and earmark $1 million for state-hospital beds.
The Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee voted Feb. 9 to adopt the chair's prioritized lists of budget reductions and spending recommendations and forward those lists to the Executive Appropriations Committee (EAC).
Committee members first heard a staff briefing explaining the colored "skinny" and full lists for reductions (green), ongoing (gray), one-time (blue) and opioid-settlement (orange) funding, and the underlined changes since the last printed packet. After about two hours of public comment and a series of amendment motions, the panel agreed on a package to send to EAC.
Committee staff noted that some items were moved between lists and combined (for…
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