Finance Committee to Begin Budget Decisions on Tuesday

by Kids Forward | April 20, 2011

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The Joint Finance Committee will hold an executive session on Tuesday, Apr. 26, to begin voting on various parts of the biennial buget bill.  You can find a full list of the topics to be considered and the links to those papers on this part of the LFB website

Read on for a partial list, which focuses on the topics that are more relevant to kids and families, and which includes a link to each of those Legislative Fiscal Bureau papers.Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
  # 194 — Eliminate Long-Term Vacancies

Children and Families — Child Support
  # 225 — Child Support State Operations
  # 226 — Funding for Local Child Support Enforcement Activities

Health Services — Care Facilities
  # 375 — Mental Health Institutes Funding Split
  # 376 — Transfer SVPs From WRC to SRSTC and Close WRC Units
  # 377 — Contracted Services for Mental Health Clients

Insurance
  # 400 — Lapse of Surplus Fee Revenues
  # 401 — Medigap Helpline Modification
  # 402 — Close Enrollment in the State Life Insurance Fund

As the committee makes decisions in areas that we included (or should have included) in the WI Budget Project’s Comparative Analysis of the 2011-13 Budget, we’ll update that document. 

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