At its meeting, the House Committee on Appropriations voted to disapprove the State Budget Office's recommended FY25 work projects list. Representative Badak moved to disapprove the items in the House Fiscal Agency document dated December 10, and the motion passed on a roll-call vote, 16 yays to 9 nays.
The committee chair summarized the State Budget Office's submission and the committee's statutory review role under the Management and Budget Act, saying the committee evaluates whether work projects have a specific purpose, a plan to accomplish goals, an estimated completion cost, and an estimated completion date. The transcript records the State Budget Office recommendation as 25 FY25 work projects totaling $2,700,000,000, with "$657.6 of that coming from the general fund" (the transcript does not specify units for the $657.6 figure).
Representative Badak formally moved to disapprove "the work projects presented within the House Fiscal Agency document before you dated December 10." The clerk called the roll for the disapproval motion. During the roll call one member asked on a point of order, "Are we are we going to discuss these work projects or can you clarify what we're voting on?" The chair replied, "We are voting on the list before you to disapprove these work projects." That exchange is recorded in the transcript and shows the committee proceeded to a vote without further discussion.
The clerk recorded members' votes individually; the clerk then announced, "Madam chair, you have 16 yays, 9 nays, 0 pass. The motion prevails." The transcript lists recorded votes by name as read aloud during the roll call (transcript spellings are retained where shown). The meeting concluded after a motion to excuse absent members and the committee adjourned.
The transcript also contains inconsistent spellings of the chair's name (appearing as both "Chair Boland" and later referenced as "chair Bolen" in the roll call). The article reports both spellings as they appear in the official transcript rather than correcting them to an outside source.
Next procedural steps were not specified in the transcript; the committee excused absent members and adjourned.