Supplemental budget for fiscal year 2018

What it means

The Senate Ways and Means version of the fiscal year 2018 supplemental budget, which the pinslip lists as $143,700,000 in direct appropriations. It adds money to existing accounts, including $25,633,697 for the Department of Transitional Assistance, $19,263,955 for housing and community development, $12,000,000 for a state reserve, $8,500,000 for elementary and secondary education and $5,300,000 for Veterans' Services, and creates reserves of $21,076,186 for sheriffs' deficits, $15,500,000 for state union contracts (which it makes effective), $2,500,000 for people who came from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after hurricanes Maria and Irma, and $520,895 for Buckland's tropical storm Irene costs. It also adds $2,000,000 for the Cannabis Control Commission (to be repaid from the Marijuana Regulation Fund), a $15,000,000 health and human services trust transfer and $3,000,000 for transportation, up to $2,000,000 of it for regional transit authorities with deficits. Other sections add references to marijuana products and the local marijuana tax (chapter 64N) to two state tax laws, let towns vote to combine their elected treasurer and tax collector into one appointed job, and change rules on municipal bond premiums and a falls prevention commission.

Source: official text and history of S.2481 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.