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Joint Budget Committee

Tuesday, January 20, 2026·6h 16m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Budget Committee cleared a handful of routine supplemental requests and housekeeping votes before turning to the bulk of the afternoon: part two of HICPF's hearing, dominated by the fallout from the federal HR1 law that staff called the biggest change to Medicaid since the ACA.

Key Actions

·OIT supplemental requestsPassed

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Notable Quotes

there is no state funding solution that offset the loss of these federal funds. The impact is too large given the loss of overall state tax revenue which caused the August special session, and the impact to the provider fee financing.

Nancy Dolson (HICPF Budget Director) · witnessThe budget director's blunt assessment that the state cannot backfill the federal Medicaid money lost under HR1.

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TranscriptPreview
Order. We have a number of supplemental considerations before us today. We are starting with Mr. McClear, Office of the Governor and compensation policies with Mr. Ken. After you. Okay, Mr. McClure, thank you. Madam Chair. Andrew McClear, JBC staff I am here to speak with you all today on the supplemental request for the Office of Information Technology within the Office of the Governor. The office has two requests. One is the real time billing mid year adjustment. And the second request is a transfer from the Technology Risk Prevention and Response Fund. So if you turn to page two, this just shows a summary of the staff recommendation. The table has the two highlighted items that I will be speaking with you about today. The total fund reduction of this is $9.6 million in 11.4 of which is reappropriated funds and then an increase of 1.8 million in cash funds, which I will discuss in the S1 request from the department. So getting right into this first supplemental request for the real time billing, true, the department, as you can see in this top table, requests $14.6 million reduction in reappropriated funds. Staff is only recommending an $11.4
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