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General Fiscal Issues, Office Management, Federal and State Fiscal Policy, Information Technology, Education, and other subjects as needed

General Fiscal Issues, Health and Human Services, Federal and State Fiscal Policy, Information Technology, Assistance with Office management, and other subjects as needed.

Overall budget expertise and serves a key role in the development of the budget bills and related issues. Provides fiscal research and support services to the Legislature. Monitors the fiscal operations of the State including revenues, budgeting and expenditures.

Senate Appropriations, Medicaid
Overall budget expertise and shared responsibility for drafting and production of the annual budget bill. Maintains annual analysis of the General Fund for fiscal year budgetary balance and near and short term growth. Provides analysis and assistance on other activities and legislation with fiscal impacts or dimensions. Represents JFO as part of the multi-agency joint staff Medicaid budget recommendation and year-end report.

House Appropriations, Energy
Provides budget expertise and support to the House Appropriations committee, member of the team that drafts and produces the annual budget bill, provides support and analysis in a variety of other areas as requested.

Health Care Finance, Data and Economic Analysis
The Senior Economist provides policy analysis and research to the legislature on a variety of fiscal issues and works on current issues under consideration by the legislature as needed. In general, issues that come to the senior economist require deeper and more long-term analysis than the usual matters analyzed by JFO. Recent issues analyzed include minimum wage, paid family leave, health care financing, tax and fiscal policy, state and regional economic analysis, demographic challenges, and decarbonization methods.

House Committee on Ways and Means; Task Force on the Implementation of the Pupil Weighting Factors Report; monitors the approval process of State grants.

Analyzes and estimates personal income, corporate income, sales and use, meals and rooms, and other non-property, non-transportation taxes. Also monitors State economic development programs, including Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive (VEGI).

Coordinates the budgeting and financial operations for the legislative branch. Provides fiscal support for the capital bill. Provides research and analysis for ad hoc fiscal issues.

Software Development
Creates and maintains software solutions for the Joint Fiscal Office and the legislative budget as a whole. Also creates data visualizations and GIS maps.

Senate Appropriations, Health Reform Oversight Committee, Production of Budget and Budget Adjustment Bills and HR Administrator.

Health Care Finance
Health and human services related issues including health care reform, Medicaid, health insurance, and other health care finance related issues.

Primary responsibility focuses on education finance analysis, as well as federal funds investments including climate change, broadband, and clean water.

Transportation, pensions, other post-employment benefits
Transportation Fund and Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund revenues; Annual Transportation Bill and related issues; Environmental issues related to transportation.
State and teachers pensions, other post-employment benefits.

Primary responsibility concerns all aspects of revenue analysis and assisting the Senior Fiscal Analyst who does revenues; secondary responsibility is assisting with analyzing statewide investments using federal funds.

Provides support to the House Committee on Appropriations, Legislative Joint Fiscal Committee, and the Joint Transportation Oversight Committee. Public Records Officer, Project Manager for the New Member Orientation,and the annual publication of the Fiscal Facts Booklet, and assists in the budget production and organizes Legislative Briefings.