A 5327 changesAppropriates $60,743,569,000 in State funds and $30,495,124,195 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2027.

What changed

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This bill version removes approximately 200 pages of itemized revenue sources and federal program funding detail from the preamble, totaling over $95 billion across state revenue lines, federal grants, and departmental appropriations, while leaving the top-line budget totals ($60.7 billion state funds, $30.5 billion federal funds) unchanged. The deletions span every major department—Agriculture, Children and Families, Education, Health, Human Services, Labor, Law and Public Safety, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs—and remove itemization of tax revenues (major taxes subtotal $28.9 billion), miscellaneous fees and recoveries ($4.3 billion), federal Medicaid and social service programs ($21+ billion), infrastructure grants (Clean Water $217M, Drinking Water $262.5M), and professional licensing board appropriations ($16.7M). The changes appear to be a wholesale restructuring of how the budget presents its revenue assumptions and federal funding sources, consolidating or relocating line-item detail that previously appeared in the preamble, rather than substantive elimination of programs or funding, though the removal of this granular transparency may affect legislative and public oversight of how the $91.2 billion budget is composed and allocated.

Change log

• PREAMBLE >cont.

  removedhigh confidence

  Removes five standing appropriation provisions from Banking and Insurance Department budget language

  This section eliminates five distinct appropriation authorities that previously allowed flexible funding without fixed dollar limits. These covered: (1) additional deposits to the New Jersey Health Insurance Premium Security Fund for reimbursing insurance providers; (2) temporary additional funding for the Health Insurance Affordability Fund to help individuals transition from pandemic-era Medicaid/CHIP coverage to state exchange plans; (3) funding for audits of reinsurance claims and administrative costs from the Premium Security Fund; (4) appropriation of out-of-state land sales investigation receipts for those investigations; and (5) appropriation from the Real Estate Guaranty Fund for paying claims.

• PREAMBLE >cont.

  removedhigh confidence

  Removed approximately $21.1 billion in itemized federal program funding lines from preamble

  This section deletes a detailed enumeration of federal funding allocations previously listed in the budget bill's preamble. The removed text itemized approximately 30 federal programs with specific dollar amounts, ranging from $260,000 for the Traumatic Brain Injury State Partnership Program to $17.09 billion for Title XIX Medical Assistance. Major programs removed from the preamble listing include Medicaid (Title XIX), TANF, SNAP, Children's Health Insurance Program (Title XXI), and various behavioral health and social service grants. The removal does not necessarily indicate elimination of the programs themselves, only their detailed enumeration in this preamble section.

• PREAMBLE >cont.

  removedhigh confidence