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Committee language preserves ARPA reporting, directs transfers to cover IT shortfalls

House Appropriations Committee · March 20, 2026
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Summary

Appropriators preserved reporting and reestablishment language for ARPA projects, clarified reversions, and included provisions to transfer certain technology-modernization interest to the general fund and to use interest to help cover a cited $25 million deficit in the IT internal service (CIT) fund.

The committee’s language package maintains reporting authority for reestablished ARPA spending, strikes obsolete reversion language, and includes a pair of adjustments aimed at consolidating and stabilizing technology-related funds.

Grady Nixon explained that prior budget language required reversion and reserve of unused ARPA funds but that some cited ARPA funds will no longer exist in that format; the proposed amendment preserves reporting on reestablished…

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