Legislative General Fund budget committee members will start talking fiscal year 2027 next week.
Senate General Fund Committee Chairman Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Range, said the Aug. 26 and 27 budget hearings will include the “usual suspects” of state agencies, such as Medicaid, corrections, mental health, public health and human resources. The leaders of the Alabama Department of Transportation and Alcoholic Beverage Control Board are also on the agenda.
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These summertime sessions have in recent years focused on the impacts of inflation on agencies or how they’re spending federal COVID-19 funds. This year, Albritton said, the federal “big, beautiful bill” will be front and center.
“(We want to know) their analysis of where we’re headed with this and how that’s going to affect or reflect on them,” he said.
State leaders know that some agencies will see cuts under the spending plan signed in July. Nationally, Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be cut by more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Exactly what those cuts and other changes in the bill will look like in Alabama is still being determined.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Mary Sell and originally published by Alabama Daily News.
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