Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee worked through figure-setting for the Department of Regulatory Agencies and the Department of Transportation, clearing most line items unanimously but splintering over the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, an untested plan to convert the state's share of Pinnacol Assurance, and whether to keep funding bike paths and Bustang buses in a lean budget year.
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“part of the reason why the department has been so deliberative is because of the threat of litigation and that they are unable to move nearly as fast as we might want them to in controlling prescription drug costs because litigation hangs over them at every moment”
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Sign in to subscribeIt's. The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are starting the afternoon with figure setting for the Department of regulatory agencies. Ms. Curry. Thank you, Madam Chair. Michelle Curry, Joint Budget Committee Staff I will start by saying there's a memo on your desks. This is just to replace. You can use it to replace the first two pages of the figure setting document. I just failed to include a couple of detail tables in the original document. It's been updated online. So the one online has everything there. But this is just the full set of information for the summary of the staff recommendations. So Department of Regulatory Agencies is responsible for consumer protections carried out through all those regulatory programming. The summary of staff recommendations, both the table is identical in both the original one that you received and the replacement pages for this figure setting presentation. We'll go through two requests from the department and then one staff initiated refinance option as we move through. So if it's okay, we can jump in with the first department request, which is page three on your original document. I know it's confusing now. I wanted to be…
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