Negotiations are coming down to the wire on the state budget. This week, head budget writers from the House and Senate are likely making their final decisions about pay raises and cost-of-living adjustments.
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The Senate passed its budget proposal this week that includes a pay raise and bonus for most employees, but no cost-of-living adjustment or bonus for retirees.
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This was crossover week at the legislature when a marathon of bills are considered in an effort to survive the deadline by which they must pass one chamber or die. Roughly one-fourth of the 1,690 bills proposed in the session survived the deadline.
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