The Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will hold a public hearing Friday morning on the state budget, and the public is invited to have its say on any state budget issue. The hearing will run from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Lincoln Auditorium in the lower level of the state Capitol; testimony will be heard on a first-come basis, though if time runs short, the chair may make some exceptions “in consideration of geographic distance and diversity.”

Sign-ups to testify will start at 7 a.m., just outside the auditorium; people must sign in only for themselves. Written testimony also will be accepted, and the hearing will be streamed live online.