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Appropriations hears DOC FY27 budget: contracts, Medicaid waiver and special funds drive increases
Summary
Rene, the department’s finance director, told Appropriations the FY27 request folds BAA increases (notably the Wellpath contract and Burlington Recovery Project) into the base, and cited the Section 1115 waiver and Medicaid Global Commitment as drivers of higher federal fund items.
Rene, the department’s Executive Director of Finance, presented the Department of Corrections FY27 budget picture and explained the major drivers of increases lawmakers should expect. "The total FY '27 budget... is presented as about $244 million," Rene told the committee, and she characterized the general fund as the largest share of the request. She said several items pushed FY27 upward: incorporating increases from the Biennial Adjustment (BAA) for the Wellpath health contract…
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