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We finished the final week of this year’s Le g i s l a t ive Session. As always, the final week of session is a flurry of activity, especially in the Joint Committee on Appropriations. This week we finished budget setting for Bureau of Finance and Management, Department of Education, Board of Technical Education, Department of Health, Department of Social Services, Department of Human Services, Governor’s Office of Economic Development, Department of Labor and Regulation, Department of Corrections, Board of Regents, and State Treasurer. These agencies, in addition to those completed last week were rolled up into FY 2025 General Appropriations Bill, HB1259. In addition, we finalized and passed SB52 which appropriates onetime dollars from the FY2024 budget which result from reversions from agencies and additional revenues. This year we saw a large increase in unclaimed property receipts which fueled the revenue increase. We aren’t expecting that in future years.