Executive Committee of the Legislative Council
The Executive Committee spent the morning working through FY2026-27 budget requests for the legislature's own agencies — each pitched as belt-tightening in a shortfall year — before its one real fight: a 4-2 vote to trim NCSL dues by 10 percent, with members split over whether that cut went far enough.
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“Normally this would need to grow by about 3 to 5% because you know, Microsoft doesn't care that we're in a budget shortfall. They're going to increase the amount, they're going to increase their invoice and they do every year. But we think that we can tighten our belt and do better and cut these costs.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe Executive Committee of the Legislative Council will come to order. Ms. Kurtz, Phelan, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Caldwell. Here. Duran. Here. Rodriguez. Here. Simpson. Present. Mr. Mr. President. He said he couldn't hear me. I got you now. I got you now. I'm here. Madam Speaker. Here. We do have a quorum. Good morning, members. We have a very full agenda today. We will be walking through each of our legislative agencies. Office of the State Auditor, Legislative Council Staff, Joint Budget Committee, Office of Legislative Legal Services, understanding their budget requests for 2627. We will also plan to take action on our joint governmental agency dues and then discuss some potential legislation and any other business that is necessary. So with that, let's begin a review of our budget requests. Auditor Hunter, welcome. Thank you. Madam Chair. Madam Speaker, Committee members, good morning. For the record. Kerry Hunter, State Auditor. I will kick us off this morning and go through our budget at a high level, just informational, in line with our historical practice for the various staff agencies to take our budgets to our oversight agencies first and then to the Executive Committee. I…
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