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Senate Appropriations Committee reviews four budget amendments including $3M for town highways and corrections fixes
Summary
The Senate Appropriations Committee reviewed four amendments April 28: moving a $3 million transportation pilot into the one‑time budget for town highways, correcting duplicate $500,000 correctional facility lines and specifying a sprinkler upgrade, clarifying homelessness continuum appropriations and adding municipal transportation fund language to statute.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on April 28 considered four amendments to the budget bill, including a proposal to move a $3 million transportation special‑fund grant for town highways into the budget's one‑time appropriations.
Staff briefed the committee on the first amendment, which would relocate a private special fund appropriation currently in the transportation bill into a one‑time section of the budget and create a $3,000,000 pilot special fund appropriation to the Agency of Transportation to provide additional grants through the general state aid town‑highways program.
A second amendment corrected drafting errors in the cash‑fund…
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