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Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee spent an evening working session grinding through balancing maneuvers — swapping general fund dollars for cash funds, sweeping empty accounts and scaling back capital construction — with most motions clearing unanimously but a contested 4-2 split over an IT capital list that no one could fully explain.
Key Actions
·prop-ee-tobacco-upk-refinanceNo vote
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Notable Quotes
“Yay, pouches and vapes. Let's fund UPK.”
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The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We're just going to work through some more things in a disorderly way. So I think first there is a suggestion from Senator Kirkmeyer or Vice Chair Bridges on some possible prop ee tobacco funds. Thank you, madam chair. We have about 10 million from general fund going into UPK. There are enough funds in the cash fund to support that rather than those dollars coming from general fund. Given the state of our budget, it seems prudent that we move those dollars from the cash fund instead of taking $10 million from the general fund. So I don't know if we need someone in here to do that. I don't know if that requires a bill as part of the transfer bill or how that works. Ms. Shen, there we go. Thank you, madam chair. Kelly Shin, JVC staff Mr. Vicer, could you clarify what exact cash fund you're looking for and if you are anticipating more or less money, I guess which cash fund? Tobacco cessation money. The Tobacco Education Program cessation. Okay. You. Are you looking to just take from the balance of that or. Yes. We don't know…
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