The House Appropriations Committee advanced 40 budget-balancing bills in a single session, cutting or redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars from education, behavioral health, housing, transportation, and other programs. The most contested items involved permanently eliminating future transfers from the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund to affordable housing programs, sweeping $735.7 million in ARPA-related funds to the general fund, and reducing local governments' share of multimodal transportation funding — all over objections from outside advocacy groups but without committee amendments.
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Multiple affordable housing witnesses including Kathy Alderman, Kinsey Hasted, Peter Lafari, Jonathan Capelli, Amy Case Miranda, and Stefka Fanchee argued that permanently repealing the future statutory transfer from the UPTF to the Housing Development Grant Fund has no effect on the current budget year and should be limited to one year. Jonathan Capelli stated directly: 'doing so for future years doesn't have any effect on the budget this year. So it's not totally clear to us why it's being repealed completely if the rationale is because of the current budget situation.' No bill sponsor directly rebutted this point on the record, and no amendments were adopted.
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“This is a brutal vote, but a necessary one given our constraints on our budget. I just appreciate the committee at JVC working so hard to find places where we can cut. I think my hope and commitment is that we work hard to make sure and I know that this is the intention of so many members, that we make sure our kinship families are supported as we've shifted the whole system to focus on placing our most vulnerable youth with kin, that we. That they have the right support going forward. So it'll be a. I'll be a yes today, but a very, very hard vote.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe House Appropriations Committee will come to order. Ms. Pope, please call the roll. Representative Spacenecker? Here. Bottoms. Here. Gilchrist. Here. Joseph. Excused. Sorry. McCormick. Here. Soper. Here. Taggart. Here. Tatone. Here. Zocai. Here. Madam vice chair. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. Thank you. Committee, welcome. We have a number of bills to get through today. As I mentioned during announcements, I am laying House Bill 1365 over until tomorrow. That bill will not be heard until tomorrow at 7am with that, we will start. And with. And I will also pass the gavel over to Madam Vice Chair, and I believe Rep. Taggart will present this first bill. Representative Taggart, would you like to tell the committee about House Bill 1348? Thank you, madam Chair. This bill is about changes to broadband infrastructure, its cash fund. Over a period of time, we have put by legislation 5 point, approximately $5.3 million into broadband infrastructure for our Corrections Department. At present, there have been seven. Seven correction institutions that have put this broadband in place, but they have. During this course, they have saved about $1.3 million of what we allocated to them. And they would like to finish broadband infrastructure…
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