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House approves $16.5 billion supplemental budget
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The House signed off this morning on a fiscal 2005 supplemental spending plan that would send more than $100 million to school systems whose enrollments grew last fall. The vote was 145 to 19.
One sticking point in the $16.5 billion midyear budget adjustment had been the $20 million worth of local projects added by the House. After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, many of the projects remained in the final spending plan, which will likely be approved by the full House and Senate.
Included in the budget is $1 million for rail upgrades at the Brunswick Port, which is represented by House Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons Island). Also in the budget are $2.7 million to design a teaching laboratory building at Georgia State University and $1.6 million to design a new University of Georgia College of Pharmacy.
The Senate is expected to take similar action later in the day, which would send the supplemental budget to the desk of the governor to be signed into law.
Immediately after voting on the supplemental budget, the House began looking at recommending for spending in fiscal 2006, which starts July 1.
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