On Friday, the Senate passed a 2016 supplemental operating budget proposal. We describe the proposal in a new policy brief. Briefly,

• As passed by the Senate, the supplemental would increase NGFS+ spending by $33.6 million.
• The proposal would fund public charter schools.
• It would provide additional support for higher education related to last year’s tuition reduction.
• It would save $75.4 million by merging two public employee retirement plans.
• The Senate’s budget would not increase taxes.
• It would transfer $172.7 million from the general fund to the disaster response account to pay for fire costs.
• The supplemental would balance over four years.

This is very different from the House-passed supplemental, which we wrote about here.

Below is a chart from the new brief comparing the NGFS+ policy changes in the House- and Senate-passed budgets (in millions of Dollars).