BILL NUMBER: DATE: HB 2013 2/17/2026 COMMITTEE: Budget TESTIFYING: IN SUPPORT OF IN OPPOSITION TO FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
WITNESS NAME INDIVIDUAL: WITNESS NAME: PHONE NUMBER: SARAH BERRY BUSINESS/ORGANIZATION NAME: TITLE:
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EMAIL: ATTENDANCE: SUBMIT DATE: Written 2/13/2026 11:16 AM THE INFORMATION ON THIS FORM IS PUBLIC RECORD UNDER CHAPTER 610, RSMo. HB 2013 is presented as a facilities bill.
Leases. Utilities. Furniture.
If that were true, it would not need layered transfer authority.
Instead, this bill embeds:
25% flexibility between major sections 25% flexibility between and within departments 100% flexibility between federal funds
Additional transfer authority outward
Rent does not require interdepartmental discretion.
Utilities do not require structural liquidity.
When a bill itemizes dozens of line items but then allows broad percentage-based reallocation, it weakens the very line-item control it claims to exercise.
If this is a facilities bill, it should be tight.
This is not tight. It is movable.
Legislative Notice:
The cumulative flexibility provisions contained within HB 2013 create foreseeable ambiguity between appropriated purpose and executed expenditure, particularly where cross-department transfers and structural modification authority intersect. Such drafting materially reduces line-item accountability and increases audit complexity for institutional and statewide facility expenditures. MISSOURI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WITNESS APPEARANCE FORM
BILL NUMBER: DATE: HB 2013 2/17/2026 COMMITTEE: Budget TESTIFYING: IN SUPPORT OF IN OPPOSITION TO FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
WITNESS NAME INDIVIDUAL: WITNESS NAME: PHONE NUMBER: ARNIE "HONEST-ABE" DIENOFF-STATE PUBLIC ADVOCATE BUSINESS/ORGANIZATION NAME: TITLE:
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EMAIL: ATTENDANCE: SUBMIT DATE: Written 2/17/2026 11:29 PM THE INFORMATION ON THIS FORM IS PUBLIC RECORD UNDER CHAPTER 610, RSMo. Cut all unnecessary expenses and waste.
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