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Joint Senate Local Government & Housing and House Transportation, Housing & Local Government

Friday, January 23, 2026·3h 9m·▶ Watch / Listen

A rare joint sitting of the Senate and House local-government and housing committees turned into a marathon budget briefing, as Joint Budget Committee members warned of an $850 million gap and DOLA, OEDIT/CHFA and the Office of Just Transition defended programs facing proposed cuts and a $110 million diversion of Prop 123 housing dollars.

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·JBC overview of governor's budget and DOLA requestsAction

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Notable Quotes

And all I would also offer is that if you don't like the particular cuts proposed, suggest some others because we still have the same dollar gap to close.

Emily Sirota (JBC) · witnessSirota's challenge to lawmakers captured the JBC's central bind: an $850 million gap that any objection must still be reconciled against.

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TranscriptPreview
Come to order. Mr. Gravy, please call the roll. Senators and representatives basley. Excused. Ball. Excused. Basenecker. Brooks. Present. Jackson. Lindsay. Here. Linste. Liston. Here. Wynn. President pascal phillips. Yes. Rich. Here. Richardson. On your right, snyder. Yo. Stuart. Here. Sukla. Here. Velasco. Weinberg. Exum. Madam Chair, Here. Thank you very much everyone for joining us. And let the record reflect Pascal Jackson and Exum are in fact present. And we begin our SMART act hearing as we like to do, hearing from the Joint Budget Committee. Who would like to lead us up? Madam Chair? Sirota. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to sort of give a sort of overview here before I turn it over to Representative Brown to share the portion of the budget that you have departmental oversight over. I just, and this is probably, I don't know if it's your second or third of these meetings at this point, so perhaps I'm a broken record. But I just want to frame this and remind you of the purpose that this meeting serves. We are fulfilling our joint rule 25 obligation and we come here before you to have a conversation about the governor's budget
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