House committee prepares for education budget mark-up session
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House committee prepares for education budget mark-up session

Date: February 21, 2011
By: Jordan Shapiro
State Capitol Bureau
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JEFFERSON CITY - A House committe is expected to endorse the governor's proposed higher education budget cuts later this week.

Gov. Jay Nixon's 2012 proposed budget calls for a 7 percent reduction in state higher education funding. The House Education Appropriations Committee will meet Tuesday to mark up the budget. The committee chairman, Rep. Mike Lair, R-Chillicothe, said he expects the slashed bugdet will pass unamended through the committee.

"As of right now, it is going to be a 7 percent cut," Lair said.

One Democrat on the committee said there would be a way to avoid the funding reduction.

"There are other things to do beside cut," Rep. Mary Still, D-Columbia, said.

Still said adding taxes would be one way to increase the state's revenue.

Lair warned that nothing is certain until the mark up session ends on Tuesday.