Another busy budget week –there are over 20 House Finance Subcommittee meetings scheduled this week, five full House Finance Committee meetings and this doesn’t include regular session and other standing committee meetings.  In addition, school boards from around the state are in visiting legislators in full force.

House Finance Committee

The  full House Finance Committee will hold its first meetings on legislation on Monday and then take up two new appropriation bills this week—HB 325 Deferred Maintenance and HB 326 the Supplemental Bill.  On Thursday they will hold the final department briefing—Transportation and Public Facilities.  On Friday one more piece of Legislation will be considered.

The Supplemental Bill contains numerous requests for over expenditures in the Medicaid area.  The Legislature will be taking a close look at these during the finance process to see if some measures can be taken to control these increases.