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The topline items included in the budget amendment, which still requires legislative approval, are a restoration of the governor’s $250 million mental health trust fund, an $80 million plan to clear the 11,000-person waitlist at the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology and a two-week tax holiday for grocery stores and restaurants expected to cost the state $100 million. The administration initially proposed the trust fund, the interest from which will be used to fund mental health services for children, in 2020 but scrapped the plan as lawmakers rushed to approve a spending plan as COVID-19 started to spread in the state. Democrats
previously proposed a six-month food tax holiday.