House and Senate Budget Actions – What’s Left?

As reported previously, the full House has approved its budget plan and the full Senate will debate its plan this week.  Whereas, the Senate concurred with a large number of actions taken by the House, a few issues of importance to local governments remain to be resolved.  These include the assessment  function shift, language to shift costs for the implementation of a video conference system to perform local inmate parole hearings, the Disparity Grant, and a few education items.  MACo has summarized the decisions summarized the decisions taken by the House and the Senate budget committee and the items that remain to be resolved through a conference committee.  It is anticipated that conference discussions to develop a final fiscal plan for both the operating budget (HB 70) and Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act (HB 72) will begin by April 1.

One Response to House and Senate Budget Actions – What’s Left?

  1. [...] system to perform local inmate parole hearings, the Disparity Grant, and a few education items.  A summary of local government items to be resolved in conference can be found in a previous [...]

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