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The Legislature's internal budget rules would change to create a formal system for "district requests for appropriation," allowing individual lawmakers to direct a set amount of state funding to projects or programs in their own districts. Each year, the Executive Appropriations Committee would set aside up to $10 million (or 1% of new available ongoing revenue, whichever is less) for this purpose, split equally between the Senate and House, with each senator and representative receiving an equal individual share that can be adjusted after updated revenue estimates come in. A legislator could use their share to request one-time funding for a project or program that is at least partially within their district and serves a statewide public purpose, and neighboring legislators could pool their allocations for shared projects spanning adjacent districts. These district requests would skip the usual subcommittee funding-priority process — instead, a subcommittee would simply check whether the request meets the rules' requirements, and any request found compliant would be automatically approved and included in the final state budget bill, rather than being weighed against other funding priorities.