The Assembly is presently scheduled to convene Sunday at 3PM for a budget vote. We are supposed to have language in Saturday afternoon sometime, not much time before the vote on a document we haven’t seen yet.
Right now, the Assembly Budget Committee is meeting in Room 4202 to hear ACA 19, the measure backed by our entire causus. This is the amendment that contains the spending limit that would be placed on the legislative budget process. Dems have been fiercely opposed to a limit. We hope that we can turn the corner on this issue as their is no self discipline in this legislature to limit spending and we cannot keep digging out of these budget holes. Of course the rainy day fund which, should be called the drought fund, is part of the discussion, but it means little by itself as without spending limits, only rarely would there be ‘excess’ funds to place in a drought fund.
Later, ACA 19 was defeated in committee on a party line vote.