Arkansas Lawmakers Begin Budget Talks
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Legislators are getting started on budget
hearings, and they have to figure out a way to apy for
court-ordered improvements to public school facilities. Those
improvements could have a price tag in the billions of dollars.
House and Senate members say they will look at bare-bones
budgets for state agencies, in light of the education outlays they
face.
Earlier this year in a special session, the Legislature raised
the state sales tax by seven-eighths of a cent as part. The hike
was part of a $370 million tax increase in response to a
state Supreme Court order to overhaul the state`s public education
system.
