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The Joint Budget Committee spent an upon-adjournment session digesting a primer on special-purpose authorities, wrangling over statewide operating common policies — where an R1 payroll motion collapsed on the floor over an unexplained year-long parallel run — and setting figures for the Department of Law.
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All right, the joint budget committee will come back to order. We are first going to hear from the Office of Legislative Legal Services on special purpose authorities. Mr. Lively, whenever you are ready. Thank you, Madam Chair. Pierce Lively, Office of Legislative Legal Services. Give me just a second to share my screen here. Yeah, Thursday. There we go. Great. All right. Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, for the record, Pierce Lively of office, Office of Legislative Legal Services. I realize some might have looked at the scheme schedule and thought this was scheduled for three and a half hours, but I promise this will take far less than three and a half hours. So special purpose authorities have come up and at least one of the governor's budget requests and have just generally been talked about this year as an attempt to give the state some more fiscal flexibility. Special. There aren't all that many special purpose authorities, and they aren't often discussed. So I was asked to give a brief overview of what these are, how they and how they work to the committee so that you all are better informed both with the governor's budget request…
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