PROVIDENCE – The Senate on Friday approved the $7.8 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 passed by the House the day before, sending the bill on to Gov. Donald L. Carcieri.
The budget, which passed by a vote of 30 to 6, would reduce state aid to cities and towns and pare back public-employee pensions but would not increase sales or income taxes.
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“This is the result of tough decisions and discussions over the course of many months about how to solve some very difficult, complex problems facing the state,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Da Ponte said in a statement. “This was the result of an effort to maintain as much of the safety net as possible without adding to the burden of taxpayers.”
The tax-and-spending plan’s fate now rests with Carcieri, who can either sign the budget into law, allow it to become law without his signature, or veto it. Carcieri’s spokeswoman said Monday morning he had not made a decision yet about which action to take, and she did not know when he would do so.
Carcieri signed the annual budgets crafted by lawmakers in 2009 and 2008. He vetoed the budget in 2007, but lawmakers overrode him.
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