SENATE APPROVES STATE BUDGET; LOPSIDED VOTE SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR PLAN.Byline: Jennifer Kerr Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A bountiful Bountiful, city (1990 pop. 36,659), Davis co., N central Utah; inc. 1892. It is a residential suburb N of Salt Lake City with some farming and floral nurseries; machinery and motor vehicles are produced. Bountiful was settled by Mormons in 1847. if tardy tar·dy adj. tar·di·er, tar·di·est 1. Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late. 2. Moving slowly; sluggish. $76.9 billion state budget, containing something for everyone from high school freshmen to car owners and welfare mothers, won swift approval Monday in the state Senate. The Assembly planned to vote on the spending plan Monday evening, 41 days after the start of the fiscal year and 56 days after the constitutional deadline for passage of a budget bill. The budget was hailed by lawmakers as a boon Boon A general term that refers to a benefit or improvement for investors. This can include such things as increased dividends, a stock market rally and stock buybacks. Notes: for taxpayers, with its potential $3.6 billion tax cut, and for public schools, with more than $700 million in increased funding. ``Once you look at this budget, you will quickly note it was a budget that was worth waiting for,'' budget committee Chairman Mike Thompson For other persons named Mike Thompson, see Mike Thompson (disambiguation). C. Michael Thompson (born January 24, 1951), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing California's At-large , D-Napa, told his Senate colleagues. The Senate vote was 34-4, with only very conservative Republicans voting against it. Besides approving the main budget bill, senators also passed half of the 42 other bills in the budget package, including measures implementing the tax cut and modifying the state's controversial Smog Check II auto inspection program. The other 21 budget ``trailer In communications, a code or set of codes that make up the last part of a transmitted message. See trailer label. bills'' were awaiting votes in the Assembly. Sen. Dick Mountjoy Richard L. "Dick" Mountjoy (born January 13, 1932) is a Republican politician from Monrovia, California. Personal life Mountjoy was born in Los Angeles, California. He is married to Earline Winnett. He has two sons, Michael and Dennis Lee, and one daughter, Judy. , R-Arcadia, one of the budget dissenters dissenters: see nonconformists. , complained that the tax cut is not large enough and that the budget, as usual, funds abortions for poor women. However, other legislators of both parties lavishly praised the spending plan, which took so long because of political disagreements over how to divide a $4.4 billion surplus. BUDGET DETAILS Some details of the 1998-99 state budget: TAX CUTS $1.4 billion this year, growing to a potential of $3.6 billion annually within five years. A 25 percent cut in the vehicle license fee, beginning Jan. 1, increasing by steps to as much as 67.5 percent by 2003 if the economy continues to boom, for a potential total of $3.2 billion annually. $400 million over five years in 14 different business tax breaks. An income tax credit for renters of $60 for singles making up to $25,000 a year and $120 for couples making up to $50,000 a year. An increase in the income tax credit for dependents from $68 in 1997 to $222 in 1998. SCHOOLS $22.3 billion for public schools, more than $700 million above the amount required by Proposition 98. Additions include $195 million for 180 days of school plus three days of teacher training, $250 million for new textbooks, $156 million for library books, $115 million for deferred maintenance, $89 million to reduce the size of ninth-grade English and math classes, $50 million for after-school programs, $75 million for remedial REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. summer school and other programs, $50 million for low-performing schools. WELFARE Benefits increase 7.7 percent on Nov. 1 for the families with children in the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program. Benefits for the aged, blind and disabled will go up 3.8 percent on Jan. 1. - Associated Press CAPTION(S): box Box: Budget details (see text) |
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