FRANKFORT — Two bills related to Kentucky’s spending plan for the next biennium advanced off the Kentucky House floor on Thursday. House Bill 500 would appropriate billions each fiscal year to the ...

As we pass the halfway point of our 60-day legislative session, members continue to work on the version of our state budget that will be considered by the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee in ...

The Capitol Building in Frankfort is closed for renovations, as Kentucky lawmakers instead convene the 2026 legislative session in a nearby temporary structure. The two-year budget bill of the ...

Rep. Henry Helgerson, D-Wichita, warns Kansas House colleagues of the folly of allowing state expenditures to exceed state tax revenue each year by about $500 million. He says burning quickly through ...

OLYMPIA — House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon has issued an apology after showing up intoxicated during Wednesday evening’s House Appropriations Committee meeting. The Seattle Democrat said in a ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Georgians will soon be getting income tax rebates after ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky's next two-year budget has undergone significant changes since it was introduced in the state legislature about a month ago. Now, it's one step closer to approval after ...

TOPEKA — Kansas House fiscal hawks debated Wednesday whether the chamber’s budget bill did enough in the upcoming fiscal year to grapple with the reality of the state spending $500 million more ...

The latest version of the $31 billion GOP budget bill, which includes more money for education and Medicaid, passed a Kentucky House committee — before the public could read it. A new version of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky's budget bill is now headed to the full Senate after passing the House Thursday. House Bill 500 would fund the state budget for the next two years, appropriating ...

(The Center Square) – Committees in the state House and Senate advanced their respective chambers' supplemental capital budget proposals on Thursday, setting them up for floor votes in the coming days ...

The Missouri House voted Monday to spend state general revenue to serve people enrolled under the Medicaid expansion program for the first time since it was passed by voters in 2020. The $76.7 million ...