Last evening the House Ways and Means Committee passed–with 10 relatively minor amendments–the 2011-13 budget we detailed in yesterday’s policy brief. The 10 amendments added $20.6 million to NGFS+ spending for the biennium. However, the projected ending balance is down by only $3 million (to $792 million) due to the correction of several errors that committee staff had made in the calculation of resources available for the biennium. Here is an updated balance sheet: