One of the primary tasks of the Wrap Up Session is to approve the Omnibus Bill.  It is called the Omnibus Bill because it includes appropriations for a wide variety of purposes and for every agency requiring further appropriation action for the current or forthcoming fiscal year.  The Omnibus Bill normally contains three basic types of items: technical adjustments to previous appropriations bills, financing for Governor’s budget amendments which were not considered as part of regular appropriations bills, and financing of substantive legislation that passed the Legislature earlier in the session.

Additionally, this bill sometimes includes various items of interest to individual legislators that are offered as amendments during either Appropriations/Ways and Means Committees or Committee of the Whole deliberations.  The Omnibus Bill also differs from other appropriations bills in that the Omnibus Bill, as introduced, actually is prepared by a legislative committee.  Most other Appropriations bills, while nominally authored by the Appropriations/Ways and Means Committees, actually begin as the Governor’s recommendations.  The Omnibus Bill is one of the last bills passed each session. 

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