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Senate reopens tobacco settlement fund to add cessation money and one‑time museum grants after floor amendment
Summary
On March 11, 2009 the Senate amended and passed a substitute to House Bill 4 44 to restore tobacco‑settlement cessation funding and adopt a floor amendment adding one‑time grants for two science museums and arts programming; the move split senators on statutory intent for tobacco funds.
Senator Hilliard presented a substituted House Bill 4 44 to reallocate certain tobacco settlement monies. The substitute restored $1.5 million to tobacco cessation public‑education programs that the committee had earlier reduced.
During floor consideration Senator Valentine moved a floor amendment (Amendment No. 1) that increased cessation funding by $500,000 (bringing total cessation funding to $2 million) and directed onetime appropriations of $800,000 each to the Leonardo Children's Museum and the Museum of Natural Curiosity at…
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