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| 60-day Legislature Adjouns The session ended on time Thursday evening with a compromise operating budget but with few other accomplishments. The budget passed on a bipartisan vote of 85-13 in the House and 48-1 in the Senate. Many observers saw this session as a "calm before the storm" as the Legislature may have to deal with a signficant budget shortfall next session depending how it handles constitutional "basic education" requirements for K-12.  The one-year supplemental budget adds $155.1 million dollars to a $33.6 billion 2013-2015 budget. In other words, this budget adds a little more thanfour-tenths of one percent to the overall biennial budget. Of the $155.1 million, $89.2 million was spent to maintain current level services and a net $65.9 million was added as new programs or services. Budget Increases The supplemental budget add $214 million in new funding. K-12 Education programs received the bulk of the new appropriations but nonprofit related services in mental health and human services also received new funding. 
Budget Cuts
The budget also contains $148.1 million in cuts to programs. Nonprofits are potentially affected through a number of these cuts.
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