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Senate rejects Kavanaugh alternative, adopts committee amendments and advances mainline budget after hours of debate
Summary
Lawmakers on the Nebraska Legislature floor debated a competing budget amendment from Senator Mikayla Kavanaugh and rejected it before adopting the Appropriations Committee's package and advancing the mainline budget bill LB261 with the committee amendment AM 8 32.
Lincoln ' The Nebraska Legislature on the floor Tuesday debated competing approaches to the two-year mainline budget before rejecting an alternate plan from Senator Mikayla Kavanaugh and adopting the Appropriations Committee's package as amended.
Kavanaugh offered AM 13-03 as an alternate white-copy amendment to LB261 that would have redirected a set of cash funds toward property-tax relief and restored or increased funding to a range of public-health, behavioral-health and local-government programs. "This is a balanced budget that looks at the resources available to us and how we can do the most good for the most…
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