Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee walked through an end-of-session General Fund tally that, after late additions for the IDD wait list and Medicaid provider rates, left barely $2 million to spare above the required reserve. Staff Director Craig Harper cautioned that a volatile June forecast could still scramble the picture.
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“So to give you the bottom line up front, the baseline assumptions here are since the last Overview, you've added $6.7 million to HICPF of general fund. That's $3.8 million related to the IDD wait list that was a topic on the floor today, and $2.9 million to exempt additional codes from the provider rate reductions.”
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Sign in to subscribeJoint Budget Committee will come to order. We have successfully passed long bill orbitals. We're almost done, but we just have a couple things left to take care of. Director Harper, what do you have for us today? Thank you, Madam Chair. CRAIG harper, JBC Staff I think we have bill drafts, but I think those are still in process. We will get those drafts to you tomorrow so that or today so that you have a chance to review them before tomorrow, which I think leaves us with just the general fund overview for today. I've put a memo at each of your places. Subject line is General fund overview with committee actions through April 27, 2026. And the goal here was to update the general fund overview to reflect all of your commit all of your actions both as a JBC and the conference committee, including the conference committee reports that both chambers adopted today. So to give you the bottom line up front, the baseline assumptions here are since the last Overview, you've added $6.7 million to HICPF of general fund. That's $3.8 million related to the IDD wait list that was a topic on the floor…
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