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Week 14: Piecing the state budget puzzle together
04/05/2021
Week 14: Piecing the state budget puzzle together
As of mid-day Friday, 1,271 and at least 135 had been signed into law. Major questions remain over new taxes cuts, funding state agencies, what to do with federal stimulus and recreational marijuana. Much of this work is under a Thursday deadline for appropriation and revenue bills, including regulations for marijuana, to move from one chamber to the other. The federal stimulus in the American Rescue Plan Act has given lawmakers to work with this session. Legislators are making plans for how to spend more than $2 billion in a bill nicknamed ‘the beast,’ which has passed the House and is now in the Senate.
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