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STATE BUDGET BREAKDOWN

Details of the state budget approved by the Legislature for the fiscal year that began July 1:

• Increases total state general fund spending by 3.2 percent to $27.2 billion. The increase is 4.4 percent counting $300 million in mass transit money being diverted into a special fund.

• Includes no new broad-based tax or fee increases.• Reduces capital stock and franchise tax by 0.1 percent, or about $200 million.• Excludes "good will" payments in bank acquisitions from taxation, a loss of about $12 million.• Increases spending on educational improvement tax credit from $59 million to $75 million.• Adds $75 million for new tax credit for commercial film producers.

• Boosts overall spending by 5.8 percent to $10.5 billion.• Increases basic education subsidy by 3.5 percent to nearly $5 billion.• Adds $75 million in new funding for pre-kindergarten programs in public schools.• Increases funding for laptops in high schools by 350 percent to $90 million.• Increases special education funding by 3 percent to $1 billion.

• Boosts overall spending by almost 4 percent to $9.7 billion.• Saves $200 million by delaying payment to Medicaid service providers.• Increases county child welfare services by 10 percent to $966.7 million.• Increases community living services for the mentally retarded by 10 percent to $868.1 million.• Increases long-term care for the low-income elderly by 10 percent to $762.6 million.• Increases community services for mental health patients by 6 percent to $723.7 million.• Increases child-day care services for low-income families by 35 percent to $144.9 million.• Increases therapy services for young children who are developmentally disabled by 16 percent to $119.7 million.• Increases at-home attendant care services for the physically disabled by 25 percent to $84.8 million.• Increases community services for people in need of nursing care by 32 percent to $69 million.

• Boosts overall spending on state prisons by 13 percent to $1.6 billion.

• Boosts payments on general obligation debt by 2.6 percent to $871 million.<B>Sources: Senate Republican Appropriations and House Democratic Appropriations committees</B>

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