Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee spent its post-adjournment session introducing a slate of budget-companion bills and clearing a long list of department comebacks, but the sharpest exchanges came over chronic overtime and staffing at Corrections and a contested Medicaid transportation rate.
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“this feels like a, I don't know, we're on a collision course for bad things in corrections. I think due to the staffing challenges that we have these tables showing, you know, teachers and case managers and the number of shifts they're doing each week. This is, this is bad.”
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Sign in to subscribeWhich hopefully we'll get to a little bit later today. With all that detail, does that impact what you want to know about for the bill, Senator Parkmeyer? It does to some degree, yes. Because I think there might be additional things that need maybe go into the bill, depending on what the funds left over after the HMSA expenses and the reserve. Senator Kirkmeier. Madam Chair, there definitely are additional funds, I would say, even using the more conservative OSPV forecast and even using. And even with the decisions you've made so far. But you could, I think, choose to do this bill as written, and then if you decide that there's some other things you want to go into it, it's not going to be introduced until your long bill package. So you could make some later decisions about other things you wanted in it. Yes, okay, that. But as long as we can still keep adding to it. Well, I mean, does it make sense from Mr. Lively's perspective? Introduce the bill to introduce it, and then amend it later, or would you rather hold onto it? No, I don't mean amend it once it's in. I…
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