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Senate Approves Multi-Billion Dollar Budget
The Senate has approved a 24.9 billion dollar budget that restores roughly 200-million dollars in cuts made by the House. House Bill 1 now contains funding that doesn't rely on selling state prisons, taking tobacco settlement money to fund the TOPS scholarship program or assessing state employees more for retirement benefits.
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