Legislative leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement to fill an $18 million gap in Oregon’s 2011-2013 public safety budget.
Legislative leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement to fill an $18 million gap in Oregon’s 2011-2013 public safety budget.
The agreement may make it possible for the Legislature to adjourn by the end of this week.
Under the newly inked deal, the $18 million hole in the state’s $1.4 billion budget for prisons would be filled partly through a bill that would save money by capping the length of prison sentences for probation violations — Senate Bill 730 — and partly through debt savings on state bonds that were never sold, as well as some other piecemeal savings.
“It’s a compromise,” said Rep. Dennis Richardson, a Central Point Republican and the GOP’s point man on the budget. “Neither side was going to let the other leave with exactly what they wanted. … This allows us all to go home. It’s time.”
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