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House Appropriations Committee reviews final FY27 budget language, adds $50,000 one‑time for local civic journalism
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee met March 23 to review final FY27 budget documents from the Joint Fiscal Office. Members accepted technical changes, position reclassifications and agreed to add a $50,000 one‑time appropriation for local civic journalism (with a community match to reach $100,000).
The House Appropriations Committee met March 23 to review final FY27 budget language and supporting spreadsheets from the Joint Fiscal Office (JFO), and agreed to add a $50,000 one‑time appropriation intended to support local civic journalism.
The committee’s chair opened the session by outlining the plan: JFO would walk members through edits and then the committee would go off the record to read the materials before returning for final questions and a concluding vote. Grady of the Joint Fiscal Office described a handful of technical adjustments, including fund‑transfer clarifications for the CIT/techmod accounts and new directive language requiring the Department of Finance and Management and the Agency of Digital Services to report on CIT fund balances and a plan to reduce its deficit.
The presentation also included a revised appropriation for the state ethics…
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