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Senate panel reviews administration's technical letter, flags several budget items for follow-up
Summary
Senate Appropriations members and Joint Fiscal Office staff reviewed the administration's annual technical letter and agreed to most corrections while leaving several items open for more information or policy choices, including DOC reversions, DEC contract obligations, and transfers from the technology modernization fund.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on April 9 reviewed the administration's annual technical letter that lists technical corrections to the House budget adjustment, and the Joint Fiscal Office staff explained most items are minor numerical or reference fixes though several require further review or policy decisions.
S4, a Joint Fiscal Office staff member, told the committee, "the technical letter is a letter that the administration sends to the Senate Appropriations Committee each year, pointing out not issues of policy, but just technical corrections to what was in the house bill." He added JFO "concurs with about 95% of this," but noted that numeric changes would only…
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