3/14/16 Group Watch: General Fund Budget Could Stall with Governor
The House Ways and Means Committee added $26 million to the $1.8 billion General Fund Budget already passed by the Senate; the additional dollars would be added to Corrections, Medicaid and state worker insurance, and with this extra money, the budget was approved by the committee. But the budget still doesn’t have enough in it for Medicaid to satisfy Governor Bentley. He says he’ll veto the bill as it is. He’s looking for $100 million to fund the state’s Medicaid agency, a good bit more than the current bill provides. If he vetoes, and the legislature overrides it, Bentley claims he’ll call a special session focused solely on Medicaid.
