New brief: Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair’s Proposed Operating Budget Would Increase Spending by $7.5 Billion
The 2019–21 operating budget proposed by the Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair would increase appropriations from funds subject to the outlook by $7.511 billion (16.8 percent) over 2017–19. Of that, $1.667 billion is due to spending on new policy, while maintenance level changes (the cost of continuing current services, including the response to the […]
1st of April 2019
House-passed operating budget would appropriate $52.9 billion, transfer additional extraordinary revenue growth out of the rainy day fund
Friday night, the House passed a 2019–21 operating budget that would appropriate $52.934 billion from funds subject to the outlook (NGFO). (That doesn’t include the $389.6 million outside of the NGFO that would be spent on higher education and career connected learning.) In a policy brief last week, we wrote about the budget as proposed […]
29th of March 2019
Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair’s 2019–21 operating budget proposal would increase spending by $7.5 billion
Today the Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair proposed a 2019–21 operating budget that would appropriate $52.172 billion from funds subject to the outlook (NGFO). This is an increase of $7.5 billion over enacted 2017–19 appropriations. It is $687.9 million less than the budget proposal that was passed by the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. […]
Appropriations Committee adds $48.9 million to operating budget proposal
As passed by the Appropriations Committee Wednesday, the 2019–21 operating budget would appropriate $52.860 billion from funds subject to the outlook (NGFO), an increase of $48.9 million from the budget originally proposed by the committee Chair. Of the $48.9 million change in the 2019–21 budget, $18.3 million occurs at the maintenance level (the cost of […]
28th of March 2019
Appropriations Committee amends budget proposal, and a new bill would make appropriations from the rainy day fund
The House Appropriations Committee Chair’s 2019–21 operating budget proposal did not make any appropriations from the budget stabilization account (BSA, or rainy day fund), as we wrote in a policy brief yesterday. Scratch that. Yesterday evening the committee approved several amendments to the budget proposal. The official budget numbers haven’t been updated yet to reflect […]
27th of March 2019
New policy brief: House Appropriations Chair’s Proposed Operating Budget Would Increase Spending by $8 Billion
The House Appropriations Committee Chair has proposed a 2019–21 operating budget that would appropriate $52.811 billion from funds subject to the outlook (NGFO). This is an increase of $8.150 billion (18.2 percent) over 2017–19 appropriations. This increase would be the largest in at least 25 years, after a 17.9 percent increase in 2005–07 and a […]
How the funding in the House Chair’s proposal would be spread among budget areas
The House Appropriations Committee held a public hearing on the Chair’s proposed 2019–21 operating budget on Monday, and this afternoon the committee will consider the proposal in executive session. As I wrote on Monday, the proposal would increase spending from funds subject to the outlook by $8.150 billion over 2017–19. Of that, $5.834 billion is […]
25th of March 2019
House Appropriations Chair proposes a 2019–21 budget that would increase spending by $8 billion
The House Appropriations Chair has proposed a 2019–21 operating budget that would appropriate $52.811 billion from funds subject to the outlook (NGFO). That’s a 18.2 percent increase over enacted 2017–19 appropriations. Of the $8.150 billion increase, $5.834 billion is maintenance level (the cost of continuing current services) and $2.316 billion is from new policies. Revenues […]
21st of March 2019
Existing resources are enough to fund the 2019–21 maintenance level (including McCleary)—and then some
More good news for budget writers in the revenue forecast, as Kriss wrote yesterday. The 2018 supplemental budget was adopted (and balanced over four years) based on the February 2018 revenue forecast. The November 2018 forecast added $1.735 billion over 2017–19 and 2019–21, and now the March 2018 forecast has added another $861 million over […]
19th of March 2019
Budgets (including revenue packages) will be proposed next week
Today’s media availability with Senate and House Democratic leaders focused on the upcoming budget process. House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan said that the House is planning to release its 2019-21 operating budget proposal on Monday, and he expects it will be passed by the House by the end of next week. Senator Marko Liias said […]