The Joint Budget Committee completed its FY 2026-27 budget balancing work, closing a $740 million general fund gap down to approximately $3.6 million below the reserve requirement after approving a package of compensation adjustments, cash fund transfers, reserve reductions, tuition changes, and capital bills — then voted to introduce the long bill on a 6-0 vote.
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Barbara Kirkmeyer argued for adding a look-back period aligned with OIG audit findings and a requirement that HCPF furnish providers full documentation including auditor qualifications and work sheets, citing RAC audit failures that led to lawsuits the state lost. The bill's drafter noted some safeguards were already covered by the prohibition on contingency-based contracts, and the committee deferred approval pending a redraft.
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“You all have shrunk a $740 million gap when you selected the forecast down to 3.6 million. You would have been without the tweaks to the total compensation motion. I had you a few million dollars above the reserve requirement. The changes that you've just approved take you about 3.6 million below the rest of the memo we can go through very quickly.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt's. Yesterday we received some information, of course I have since lost about some proposed changes to the motions we made to total comp after, I don't know, maybe some back and forth between agencies and the JVC and trying to land in the right place for total components. And so yesterday evening the vice chair read into the record some proposed changes which he has before him and it would be my recommendation that we now actually move on these recommended changes to total Comp. Vice Chair Bridges thank you, Madam Chair. I move to reconsider the JBC's previous action on range adjustments and step like increases to employee compensation. The the committee's previous action was to fund a 0.6% step like adjustment and not to fund a range movement for state employees. Instead, I moved to fund a 1.0% salary range adjustment and a 1.0% step like adjustment for state employee compensation. Finally, I moved to allow staff to work with the governor's office and DPA to develop estimates by department, which I think has maybe already been done. Are there any objections? That passes on a vote of 520 with Kirkmeyer excused. All right, Director Harper, I…
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