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Joint Budget Committee

Friday, January 16, 2026·3h 13m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Budget Committee worked through supplemental requests for Public Safety, Revenue and Treasury on a Friday-afternoon session, approving a $1.9 million community corrections adjustment while rejecting a $35,000 tax-software request as absorbable and turning small Treasury asks into a hunt for general fund vacancy savings amid a roughly $370 million shortfall.

Key Actions

·Public Safety community corrections supplementalPassed

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I look at the total funds for the Department of revenue and it's $575 million. It's half a billion dollars. And they're saying they can't absorb $35,000 in reprogramming costs like that.

Committee ChairThe chair's rationale for rejecting the department's small GenTax software supplemental as absorbable within a large budget in a tight fiscal year.

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TranscriptPreview
The Joint Budget Committee is back and I am back in the chair's Chair for a couple of hours here. Hopefully not many. Mr. Bracke, what do you got for us? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Got a presentation here for the Department of Public Safety's Division of Criminal Justice. I'm going to go straight to page three. There's only one request to deal with, but there's some stuff here to think about. So it's S1BA1 community corrections caseload. The department requested about 1.9 million general fund. And I'm recommending that you approve that. I agree that it meets supplemental criteria. Mid year caseload adjustments for caseload related purposes are not unusual in this space. And additionally, there was a third party budget evaluation of community corrections providers that came out in June. So there's some information there related to rates that was not available last spring. So what they're asking for, there's two components here. In the current year, there's 1 million for community corrections beds. That's basically equal to an increase of about 39 standard residential beds at the current per diem rate. So we're on page three, about midway down. The second component in the current year is
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