Kansas governor signs state budget
Editor | Apr 14, 2009 | Comments 0
More News TOPEKA | Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed the $13 billion budget to finance state government after July 1, but legislators expect they will have to rewrite it because of expected declines in state revenues. In signing the budget Monday, the governor vetoed the Legislature’s proposal to spend federal stimulus money for higher education solely on deferred maintenance. Sebelius said her veto would allow the state Board of Regents to use the estimated $40 million in federal funds both to finance deferred maintenance and to help underwrite a proposal to freeze in-state tuition in the 2009-10 school year. In her veto message, Sebelius said the veto “will allow the Board of Regents to become…
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