Joint Budget Committee

All right members will call joint budget order. First I had a month agent is the peer report. Representative lance were a uh. You're recognized to give the beer report. Per reu seven many met yes feel april sixteenth subcommittee receive reports reviewed requests and approved the following various temporary appropriation american rescue plan act appropriations infrastructure investment and jobs act appropriation and a restricted reserve fund transfer miss chair I move for adoption of the report. We have any questions. Revisited working your recognized thing as chairman I have a question on them. Please these are temporary appropriations request but we're sending twelve million more to them quote department of corrections what was that going to use for. The. Given just a second they're getting reluctant it uh. The. Come him miss chairman we have someone from the parliament can it up resident wouldn't turn me back out. All right it's supported by general revenue. And what was your question. Represent restate your question the question is what what is the twelve million dollar request for and will it be continuing with will we come back with it next year in the budget or what what is it bore alright is to provide from maintenance and operating expenses utility costs and food purchases you mean those in budget twelve million dollars. In their current operating budget. His department corrections here if you come forward in the answer reviewed questions. The. Identify yourself and then address rerived question. Chair burner chief financial officer department correct next to paying director for division of crazy. Yeah. April davis budget administrated a vision of correction. Representative we did budget this this is just appropriation so if we look at our expenses last year we ended around sixty sixty five million and in right now we're around fifty million so this is in line with what we expense every year so this is just additional appropriation we've already got the money in our budget with increased beds for cast utilities. We just need the appropriation in order to carry this through the rest of the physical year. Well I understand that but did you miss your budget but twelve million what are what is it. No sir william miss it issues normal expenses that we encourage this is the end of the year you go spend the money now now so this will take us through the remainder of the year so we're not looking to purposely spend the money down. We need it now to. Continue our operations right now we're so low and are you know that we have involved is that need to be paid so this would this will continue actually the rest of this was when their new missed it when you did your budget is that right representative we have the money we have the funding for this I don't care if you got the funding I won't know what the money is being used for and I will know why you missed it in your budget I don't want sale here and talk back and forward but until every time we come up here we've got a problem with the budget fifty million year in the twelve million in the thank you all to budget like you hold to be prepared representative wouldn't you if I can help you if I can help you I think they have this in the in there the revenue stabilization in rsa they just didn't have the appropriation amount to spend it but they did have it if the budget which will pass it on their rsa with the their appropriation was share so they've got the money they just don't have the authority to spend it if that helps you. I understand that message I remember what well i'm asking if I may is one in the budget when they when they pursue the budget two hours last time what it is is there were only authorized for our mn appropriations for me before through the five million that's why I request it's for an additional twelve million inappropriation why didn't you has for a certainty million. I can't answer their all the other support to the questions about the money coming down there thank you thank you sir any other questions we do have a motion to adopt the report to have a second we have a second any discussion old in favor say I in the opposite the report is adopted. The next item is we're going to ask for the motion to suspend the rules this is going to be on senate bill sixty four and we're going to send this a special language it's all your desentary payton you want. Tell what what you've done here and so we can spend the rules and and get this on the general so we can move it to special language to meet next week. Thank you mister chair members I think many of us have spoken about this it it increases the funding for crisis pregnancy help centers from one million to two million for the next fiscal year any of that that is not dispersed through the grant process will be returned back into the part of money that it's coming out of and do have the governor's support on this and certainly would appreciate a good sending to suspend the rules and send it special language it does have special language thank you okay thank you I have a mote simple flyers you have a question I do I want to know where are these. Pregnancy help organizations. And how many are there. Had they been identified since a pain you recognized thank you mister chair and center flowers i'll have to get that information for you there are several level located or all around the state and from what I understand we put a million dollars in this program last go round and it. The. Only was distributed to about half of the pregnancy help centers before the money ran out and so that's why we're trying to double this hopefully every one of them can get some support. I'd like to know more about where these places are how many they are particularly and what parts of the state in our day addressing needs. That that part of the state hairs for this if it ran out last year where did what places in the state locations did not receive that applied for the greens if the staff could get that information add on no if they could are not maybe department of healthcare it's managed to dfa they will have that information I think we can get it to you and I see the person from df the name of your hudson rights in his hand if he has some information that i'm asking i'd like to hear from him. The. It was person if you've gone forward identify yourself. And you can dress synerger blars question. Yes sir good morning I jim heads and sector dfa good morning center flowers give us just a little bit of time to pull that list the person is responsible for that programs not in committee today but when get it to you pretty shortly. This map all right we'll get it to a mystery and I shouldn't distribute to. I would have some more questions repented as you have question about the week. If i'm now mistaken did we not give them a million dollars last session that is correct and how much do they have left. The. My understanding is they spend it all that right I believe all that has been dispersed we'll confirm that. So they're out there at zero now that's the reason we need to do this during fiscal session. Yes sir. A high representative. Cloudy record way you're recognized thank you mister chair senator repay I know that this is intended to address maternal health and I appreciate that can you talk to me a little bit about the controls that exist over these providers and other not exactly healthcare providers and I also know that there have been some situations where because they have equipment in their offices that that is healthcare equipment things like ultrasound machines and mothers will visit a center like this misunderstand they will think that they have gotten pretty little care gone to the doctor and then will not seek further prenatal care if we're really going to address material mortality would there need to be some controls and i'm sure they do exist can you just explain to me what they are how these how these places are overseen. So this morning I was prepared for a procedural thing here where this gets sent to special language to consider the special language within it of course the bill will be a debated at a later date so no I do not have all that information but it's not really. Are these centers focused on the crisis pregnancy situation supporting the lady that's pregnant through the pregnancy and even after the pregnancy the centers that i'm familiar with or within my district i'm not familiar with every center in the state are you sold exactly how they do it but it's not as much about the I mean i'm sure it is. Regarding the mortality rate that you speak. Obviously any help that we can give during the pregnancy would hopefully reduce that mortality rate but it it's focused on crisis pregnancies. Thank you sir I appreciate that it is in and I know that we're not really talking about the substance right now but if we're going to suspend the rules as we've seen over the last few days it's important to talk about the substance why we're suspending the rules what the emergency is and how are changes are suspension and are taking this up will help the women of arkansas and i'm not sure that I see that but thank you very much I certainly appreciate question thank you senator hicking your recognition just just question repayton in a bar remember correctly we've done this. I think two terms correct with mr hurts in since this was a grant problem I believe we already have all those rules established how that's how the dispersements were going to be we've already done a lot of work on this is for is making sure that it's a distributed outcorrectly and all those details are you familiar with that I know that you've taken over this position but yeah i'm i'm almost certain that those table parameters are already in place yet yes our do believe so and and thank you thank you for that goes I am relatively on this i'm not sure what the exact process is on this but we have done this a couple times before those processes are already well established we know who were given the money to they know what the purposes are their grand agreements they go with that right and if I remember correctly we actually even went into a definition and thanks to that nature whenever we first did this to make sure that they were appropriate the appropriate place and had some again some other premiers like that so again monitoring if that helps the committee like this I believe we've got that price is pretty well established already thank you sir thank you center hickey and just for clarification this bill does not change those primary at all it's just about the funding thank you. Right signal more questions in synato this may did look it up there's twenty eight thousand dollars lift in this account of the meeting and so good job good job senator the new union i'm giving you the great it shall take it road with it we have motion and we have a second meeting of the discussion how in favor say I oppose we will send that to special language. Yeah. Senator gilmore were you at are you in. Your senator davis receipt. Thank you miss share thank you for the last year I just want to recognize students from UA m with ag class and their professor loney davis from down to my area said you would welcome them welcome. All right members we've got adam see we've got a senator dees for senate bill sixty three world send that onto special language. And the next is we've got a governor letters. In these are all supplemental appropriation in reappropriations is on your day ask you go have a one sheet. And there is no new funds on the s and what we're would like to do is batch the supplemental bills. And then then batch the reappropriation bill these are out and these are none of these are new appropriations so i'll entertain a motion on the supplemental to batch the bill have a motion in the second. Any discussion all in favour they are in the opposed and we'll move down to the reappropriation bills. Have i'm take a motion on that emotion in a second any discussion I will in favor say I in the opposed. And then we'll move on to the. H calendar mr anderson. Thank you mister chairman. In their house packet that's the each and operating corner the first bill that's ready that it has no holds is on page four. This. On page for his house bill ten thirteen this is the corrections department. Ten thirteen we have any questions we have emotion and a second any discussion i'll in favor say I in your pose dischanged that texas to page five. House bill ten fourteen this is corrections community correction division in fourteen community corrections into questions have a motion and a second any discussion all in favor of sar any opposed to mrs chairman still in the house packet on page eight. On page eight house bill ten twenty eight this is education department state library education department state library new questions. Most to adopt in a second any discussion all in favor sar in the opposed mistransition as chairman and texas page twenty. Order page twenty. On page twenty its house bill ten sixty eight department of education office of early childhood. Ten sixty eight in equation. Have a motion in a second any discussion all in favor say I in the opposed mistransition the last one in the house back in was chairman's on page twenty five this is house built ten ninety sector a state this this has positions new positions mister. They goes personnel. I'd say well to the senate packet this chairman we're on page and senate packet. Had senate bill twenty six claims commission this is for approved claims. Claims commission sent a bill twenty six in equation. Have emotion and a second any discussion all in favor say I opposed mister on page nine or the page man said a bill thirty the auditor state is there dispersing agent for deputy prosecuting attorneys senate bill thirty in equations. Have a motion in a second many discussion all in favor say I opposed mister on page ten. Senate bill thirty three education apartment of career technologication. Soon bill thirty three in the questions have emotion in a second many discussion all in favor they are in the opposed. Ms german on page twelve cent a bill forty three dhs developmental disabilities. Senate bill forty three and equations. Have a motion in a second many discussion all in favor say I in your post. The last ones on page fourteen. Said about forty six this is commerce department is the aeronautics division senate bill forty six in equations have a motion in a second any discussion. I would in favor say I in your post were done or members were going to be back in here tomorrow morning at nine we have a very light agenda so what we're going to do is probably hopefully get either way by nine fifteen or nine thirty and then let those special language subcommittee meet upon our german they've got quite a bit to go through so laptop they'll take up rest the morning but anyway. Appreciate good work we are adjourned.