House Majority Caucus
The House majority caucus spent its post-adjournment session walking through the 2026-27 budget — the long bill (HB 1410) plus 64 orbital bills — with JBC members Emily Sirota and Kyle Brown framing a package of painful cuts to balance the budget. Prison-bed funding and deep cuts to a children's health program drew the sharpest questioning of the briefing.
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“These are a lot of very, very painful cuts, cuts that we didn't want to have to make. And now, you know, you are being asked to maintain them in order to balance the budget.”
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Sign in to subscribeSo let's begin. I gaveled us in. We have some members still filing in, so please do so quietly. Get yourself settled. We want to make sure we get through this in a timely way as possible. So we'll begin as soon as we can. Rep. Serota, did you want to get us started? Yes, thank you Madam Caucus Chair. Representative Brown and I are going to walk you through. Hopefully you've all brought your long bill narrative here, an incredible piece of art produced by our incredible JVC staff here to try as clearly as possible to explain what it is In House Bill 1410, the long bill and the accompanying orbitals. So this budget package includes the long bill and 64 other bills through House House Bill 1348 through House Bill 1412. And so the reason that we are running those orbitals is to make the statutory changes necessary in order to bring the budget into balance. So they are very important and crucial to completing a balanced budget. Here just for clarity's sake, the long bill includes appropriations that budget for state agencies to current law. Then some of these bills, I think there are 14 that…
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