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Appropriations

Monday, February 9, 2026·30m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Appropriations Committee advanced 26 bills from four subcommittees — HHR, General Government and Capital Outlay, Compensation and Retirement, and K-12 — reporting the majority without recorded debate, while two bills were carried over. Several bills passed on party-line-style 10–7 votes, and one vote count required correction mid-count.

Key Actions

·HB 66 – IT Modernization of Federal Benefits ProgramsNo Vote

+ 27 more actions

Notable Quotes

“This directs DSS and DMAs to contract with a third party vendor to create a plan for the modernization of IT systems that we use to administer federal benefits programs. DSS will have a cost of a little over 318,000 general fund in the first year.”

HHR subcommittee reporter (name not stated) — The reporter was presenting HB 66, which directs DSS and DMA to contract with a third-party vendor for IT modernization of federal benefits program administration.

+ 4 more quotes

Votes

Report HB 66Passed
Report HB 470Passed
Report HB 483Passed
Report HB 794 with substitutePassed
Report HB 1284Passed
Report HB 1357 with substitutePassed
Report HB 28Passed
Report HB 127 as amendedPassed
Report HB 247Passed
Report HB 494 with substitutePassed
Report HB 580 as amendedPassed
Report HB 777Passed
Report HB 797 with substitutePassed
Report HB 833Passed
Report HB 852 as substitutedPassed
Report HB 885Passed
Report HB 1142 as amendedPassed
Report HB 1472Passed
Report HB 795Passed
Report HB 865Passed
Carry over HB 1317No Vote
Report HB 195Passed
Carry over HB 362No Vote
Report HB 592 as substitutedPassed
Report HB 670 with substitutePassed
Report HB 1113Passed
Report HB 1278 with substitutePassed
Report HB 1367 as amendedPassed
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TranscriptPreview
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you all for joining us. For our House Appropriations Committee member. Can we open the roll? Clerk, please. Okay. Thank you all for your presence. Committee, we're going to be at ease for a moment. We took the roll because we. We got a lot of things going on on different committees that are meeting. And I need to release a couple of our members who need to go help out a couple committees. And we're still finalizing our agenda. So we'll be at ease for a few moments. Thank. You. Report of the HHR subcommittee, we first have. House Bill 66 by Delegate Fagans. This directs DSS and DMAs to contract with a third party vendor to create a plan for the modernization of IT systems that we use to administer federal benefits programs. DSS will have a cost of a little over 318,000 general fund in the first year. Move to report second. It's been moved. And second that we report. House Bill 66. Members, please cast your vote. That bill reports 19 to 0. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman. Members of the committee. House Bill 470. This is Delegate Cohen's bill directing DMAs…
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