Oklahoma lawmakers now know they have $85.5 million less to appropriate for the next state budget than they had last session.
Tulsa World’s Barbara Hoberock writes the Board of Equalization on Tuesday certified the spending limit to $8.2 Billion, or about one percent less than last year.
At the same time, Governor Stitt is asking the Legislature to be judicious on how they craft spending in the next budget, because $310 million of this year’s budget left over from last year’s tax collections and shouldn’t go into base spending.
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