BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) - The Louisiana House has granted final legislative passage to a $39 billion state operating budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The vote to accept various Senate changes to the bill was 88-7.
The House vote came despite complaints from some lawmakers that they had too little time to review the budget just a day after it was quickly adopted in the Senate.
And there were gripes that a $1,500 teacher pay raise was too little.
Gov. John Bel Edwards gets the measure next. He can veto any individual line items he disagrees with.
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