Staff reports | House and Senate conferees are expected to meet next week to hammer out differences in the state’s $11 billion budget for 2021-22.
“There are a lot of little details to work out, but we’re not worried about coming to a compromise,” one insider said today.
Perhaps the biggest difference between the budgets approved by the two chambers is in how state employees are paid. The Senate version of the budget calls for a 2 percent across-the-board pay raise for all state employees, while the House version calls for a 3 percent pay raise. Both budgets call for teachers to get $1,000 more in cash above their regular annual increases.
But a measure to give a bonus of $1,200 to all state employees earning less than $50,000 failed on the House floor this week by a 63-50 vote.
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