The Senate Budget and Taxation’s Capital Budget Subcommittee concurred with the House Appropriations Committee on funding both state and local Program Open Space  (POS) and rejected a Department of Legislative Services recommendation to direct all transfer tax revenue, which funds POS and other land preservation programs, to the General Fund and establish a statutory minimum funding level for all programs of $50 million.  This action would have essentially eliminated Program Open Space. The House and Senate budget committees’ agreement on this issue almost certainly resolves the matter for this year.