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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="2-1006" title_number="2" title_name="General Assembly" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Spending Affordability">
  <text>The Senate and the House budget committees:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>in considering a proposed State budget, shall consider the recommendations of the Spending Affordability Committee; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>shall:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>report a budget bill that conforms to those recommendations; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>if the level of the budget bill in the report is above those recommendations, provide, with the report, an analysis stating the extent to which the budget bill exceeds the recommendations and explaining the budget committee’s rationale for exceeding the recommendations.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
