Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee passed the budget proposed by Democrats. As passed, it would spend $525,000 more than proposed, or a total of $2.454 billion more than in 2011-13 (near general fund-state plus opportunity pathways, or NGFS+).

After the House and Senate passed different versions of a 2013-15 budget, I wrote about the divergence in non-education spending in each. Looking at the new proposal, as passed by Appropriations, the divergence remains.

The Senate-passed budget increases NGFS+ spending by 6.72 percent over 2011-13, and the House-passed budget increases NGFS+ spending by 10.44 percent. The House Appropriations proposal increases NGFS+ spending by 7.85 percent.

For public schools, higher education, and the department of early learning, the Senate-passed budget increases spending by $1.852 billion (11.22 percent) over 2011-13. The House-passed budget increases education spending by $2.251 billion (13.63 percent). The House Appropriations proposal increases education spending by $1.635 billion (9.9 percent). (The higher education numbers included in the overall education figures do not incorporate the impacts of the tuition increases in the House budgets or the tuition decrease in the Senate budget.)

Spending on everything else increases by $247.4 million (1.68 percent) in the Senate-passed budget, $1.012 billion (6.87 percent) in the House-passed budget, and $819.1 million (5.56 percent) in the House Appropriations proposal.