By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Lawmakers have three legislative days left to figure out how to deal with $158.6 million in budget differences from a $1 billion surplus.
Since January, lawmakers have passed 42 laws amid the thousands filed. The most talked about effort — education — found itself waylaid until 2020. For now, the biggest thing left is approval of a $9.3 billion budget that includes a whopping $1 billion surplus.
Most differences are nominal in the state’s 2019-20 $9.3 billion spending plan. But there are some significant differences that need to be worked out because of how each chamber wants to spend the surplus:
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