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Appropriations committee sets multiple agency budgets including Military, Veterans Affairs, Secretary of State and Game, Fish & Parks
Summary
The joint committee set FY27 budgets across several agencies — Department of Military, Veterans Affairs, Secretary of State, Office of Tribal Relations, and Game, Fish & Parks — mostly by unanimous roll-call votes, then recessed for 15 minutes.
The Joint Committee on Appropriations advanced a series of agency budgets on March 3, approving funding levels for the Department of Military, Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of State, Office of Tribal Relations, and the Department of Game, Fish & Parks.
LRC staff presented motion sheets for each agency. Representative Sam Nordstrom moved to set the Department of Military budget, which the committee approved on roll call (18 ayes). The motion detailed $7,172,173 in general funds, $26,903,675 in federal funds authority, $49,254 in other funds, and 116.4 FTEs for the adjutant general and National Guard budgets.
The committee next set budgets for Veterans Affairs (including benefits and the State Veterans Home and Cemetery), approving the motion on roll call (18 yays) with figures in the transcript of $5,729,521 general funds, $3,421,837 federal funds authority, $7,261,787 other funds authority and 142.2 FTEs.
The Secretary of State—s FY27 budget motion passed on roll call (18 ayes) with transcript amounts that included $1,596,365 in general funds, $2,276,000 in federal fund authority, $143 in one federal line, $1,118,294 in other funds, and 17.6 FTEs.
The Office of Tribal Relations was set at $896,969 general funds, $196,000 in other fund authority and 7 FTEs (motion passed 18 ayes). The Department of Game, Fish and Parks motion passed on roll call (18 ayes); the motion sheet cited $6,241,574 in general funds, roughly $34.85 million in federal funds authority, $91,714,484 in other funds authority, and 583.9 FTEs.
After the Game, Fish and Parks vote the committee recessed for 15 minutes before resuming with the Bureau of Information and Technology and other items.
