Introduced
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To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential School Aid, Community College and Higher Education budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2020. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended later to include them.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Passed in the Senate 21 to 15 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 58 to 51 (details)
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Received
Passed in the Senate 36 to 1 (details)
To approve a state education budget for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2020. House Bill 5396 contains the non-education state government budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year, while this budget funds K-12 public schools, community colleges and state universities. It authorizes spending total of $17.651 billion, of which $15.718 billion comes from state taxpayers, and $1.933 from the federal government. Public schools would get $15.525 billion, state universities $1.700 billion, and community colleges $426 million. Altogether, the two "omnibus" budgets authorize $61.565 billion in total spending for the coming fiscal year. This is an increase from $57.784 billion in fiscal year 2018-19, before the coronavirus epidemic.
Passed in the House 103 to 2 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
