Legislative staff detail three technical corrections to FY2025 appropriations
January 16, 2025 | Appropriations, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative, Idaho
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Janet Jessup, a budget and policy analyst with Legislative Services, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that legislative staff had identified three technical corrections to fiscal year 2025 appropriations that the committee will be asked to vote on at a subsequent meeting.
Jessup said the first correction moves monies that were reappropriated into the Commerce program into a newly created broadband program so broadband spending can be tracked there. “We’re taking the money out of one program and placing it in the other so that those broadband costs can continue to be tracked,” Jessup said.
The second correction addresses a drafting error that prevented a $2,000,000 transfer to the CAFO Improvement Fund from occurring as intended. Jessup said the bill language referred to the Department of Environmental Quality general fund bucket rather than specifying the intended transfer to the CAFO fund, which meant the transfer to CAFO was not made; the proposed correction would “make the agency whole and replace those DEQ general fund monies that were transferred to the CAFO fund,” she said.
The third set of corrections affects two programs in the Department of Health and Welfare: the substance-abuse treatment and prevention program and the physical health services program. Jessup said monies budgeted as trustee and benefit payments (T&B) were actually third-party contract payments and therefore should be classified as operating expenditures. Because the Health and Welfare bill included language restricting transfers out of trustee and benefit payments, the legislature must move those appropriations; Jessup said the actions move the dollars from T&B into operating expenditures and are net zero.
Committee members asked clarifying questions and were told the yellow correction packet on members’ desks (FY2025 corrections) contained the details; staff said the items would be voted on “tomorrow” (the next legislative day). Chair Groh thanked staff for their work reviewing large volumes of budget material and noted the corrections were technical in nature.
The corrections were presented for committee review; no formal vote on the corrections occurred during the recorded portion of this meeting.
Jessup said the first correction moves monies that were reappropriated into the Commerce program into a newly created broadband program so broadband spending can be tracked there. “We’re taking the money out of one program and placing it in the other so that those broadband costs can continue to be tracked,” Jessup said.
The second correction addresses a drafting error that prevented a $2,000,000 transfer to the CAFO Improvement Fund from occurring as intended. Jessup said the bill language referred to the Department of Environmental Quality general fund bucket rather than specifying the intended transfer to the CAFO fund, which meant the transfer to CAFO was not made; the proposed correction would “make the agency whole and replace those DEQ general fund monies that were transferred to the CAFO fund,” she said.
The third set of corrections affects two programs in the Department of Health and Welfare: the substance-abuse treatment and prevention program and the physical health services program. Jessup said monies budgeted as trustee and benefit payments (T&B) were actually third-party contract payments and therefore should be classified as operating expenditures. Because the Health and Welfare bill included language restricting transfers out of trustee and benefit payments, the legislature must move those appropriations; Jessup said the actions move the dollars from T&B into operating expenditures and are net zero.
Committee members asked clarifying questions and were told the yellow correction packet on members’ desks (FY2025 corrections) contained the details; staff said the items would be voted on “tomorrow” (the next legislative day). Chair Groh thanked staff for their work reviewing large volumes of budget material and noted the corrections were technical in nature.
The corrections were presented for committee review; no formal vote on the corrections occurred during the recorded portion of this meeting.
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