Peyser Associates clients and avid readers of peyser.com will not be surprised to hear that House Appropriations Committee Chair Bill Young (R-Florida) on Wednesday instructed subcommittee chairs to begin working on their spending plans for the fiscal year beginning October 1. Committee staff are saying the plan is to have all 13 bills through the full committee by late July. Specific allocations of funding for each subcommittee have been discussed between Young and the subcommittee chairs. While the full committee must approve those allocations before mark-ups can occur, subcommittee chairs have enough to go on now to begin their planning.

This news confirms our expectation that House mark-ups could begin in mid-June. In the days ahead, we will know more about which subcommittees are expected to move when.

The Senate is not quite so far along as the House, but we expect similar movement there after the Memorial Day recess.