Friday, October 23, 2009

SENATE PASSES BUDGET BILL

After about six hours of debate and after adding six amendments, the state Senate passed HB17, the budget bill by a vote of 31-9.

The bill now goes to the House, which will consider the amendments. What I'm hearing is that the House might reject some of the amendments. If that happens, and the Senate doesn't agree to drop those amendments, there will be a conference committee on the budget bill.