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House Appropriations Committee refines budget negotiating language, extends contingency authority from Act 27 and adjusts program allocations
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee reviewed negotiating language and agreed to extend contingency authority from Act 27 through FY2029, corrected a youth system bed count, made a reinsurance waiver permissive, raised an HIV/AIDS grant to $150,000, discussed supervised visitation funding and flagged a VSAC spending-authority change to appear Monday.
The House Appropriations Committee on March 20 met to finalize negotiating language for the budget and to extend a contingency mechanism first included in Act 27, committee members said.
Grady Nixon, joint fiscal, told the committee that language in Act 27 directs the secretary of administration to present options to the joint fiscal committee if federal funds are reduced. “So, essentially, what this language does is, put continue that authority and that structure for addressing federal fund reductions in fiscal years 2027, 2028, and 2029,” Nixon said.
The committee also agreed to a technical correction in language describing the high-end system of care for youth: Nixon flagged that a reference that read as an 8–14 bed figure should be changed to “41 bed,” because the provision applies to the entire system rather…
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