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The Joint Budget Committee worked through a long slate of mid-year supplementals, deadlocking on how far to go in aligning higher-ed appropriations with the governor's executive-order cuts — tabling the item until lawyers can weigh in Monday — and killing the judicial branch's request for courthouse furnishings.
Key Actions
·School finance mid-year adjustment (S1)Passed
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Notable Quotes
“we don't have to rubber stamp what the governor does in executive orders. Constitution's pretty clear who gets draft law and write law and it's not the Governor.”
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The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are continuing consideration of supplemental requests today for the Department of education. We have. Ms. Ewell. Thank you. Andrea Yule, JBC staff this is supplemental requests for school finance, or what we commonly refer to as the mid year adjustment for school finance. So I just have a couple things related to that today for you. As you can see in the Overview on table two, there's a big $104 million reduction and that is the adjustment for this year. And so I'll just get right into that, which is the big one on page four. So every year at this time is when we have received real data about what what needs to go into the total program calculation for each district. So this recommendation is to adjust the FY2526 current year appropriation to reflect that at the time we set the appropriation last year. The only thing that is ever known for sure at that time is the inflation rate that you use to adjust the base per pupil funding. Everything else related to the pupil counts, the local share at risk counts. That all is data that gets…
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