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The House passed the amended or “small” budget last week. The amended budget tweaks the current fiscal year’s budget based on the amount of money that is coming in versus what was expected. The Senate will now have to look at it, while the House starts to work on the next year’s “big” budget.
Based on very favorable revenue returns, we will be adding $654 million to this year’s original $25.9 billion budget, a 2.5% increase. Because of the safe reopening of Georgia’s businesses, we are in a lot better shape than most states. Thus, we will be adding more than half a billion dollars into this year’s current budget, mostly to education and health care. Keep in mind, last summer we cut the current yea