House Committee Approves State Budget

An Indiana House committee has approved a two year budget on a party-line vote. Minority Republicans say the budget fails to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in known obligations. That includes about 225-million dollars the Daniels administration says the state will need to cover the cost of Medicaid. The budget includes funding for full-day kindergarten and a four percent increase in overall school funding. It does not include more than a billion dollars for road projects, even though that money would come from the state’s lease of the Toll Road. The bill now moves to the full House, where another party-line vote could send it to the Senate.