Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee returned to figure setting on the Department of Human Services, working almost entirely through child-welfare and administrative reductions — clearing most on party-blind unanimous votes but splitting on a youth-program cut and a $340,000 administrative reduction aimed at forcing the department to spend money it has refused to use.
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Sign in to subscribeThe Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are back to figure setting. We have some sections of the Department of Human Services. Ms. Pope. Fine. Thank you. Madam Chair. Emily Pope, JBC staff We are primarily going to be talking about child welfare today, but we are also covering the administrative divisions of the Department of Human Services. So I'll make some summary comments for the table on page two. We have 13 items to discuss today. Almost exclusively reductions, but a couple increases. I am recommending approval of the department's request for youth services radios, denial of the request for legislation related to autism facility licensing. Approval of many of their reductions, but for Tony Gramsis, they requested an offsetting increase from marijuana tax cash fund that I am not recommending approval of. And I'm also recommending some technical adjustments related to Tony Gramsis. For collaborative management. I'm recommending a larger refinance of general fund than what they requested for the child abuse and neglect hotline. I'm also. I'm recommending approval of the request with some other additional net zero changes to line items throughout child welfare to align appropriations with expenditures for a couple items. The…
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