The Georgia state House has approved a new plan for next year’s $28.1 billion state budget –that cuts Gov. Brian Kemp proposed $2,000 teacher pay raise in half– by a vote of 134 to 35.
With that money, the house has added back in some of the proposed budget cuts in Kemp’s original plan, including a proposed $2.1 million cut to the state’s accountability courts, an $8.4 million cut to the state’s behavioral health services, and $2.4 million of proposed cuts to the state agriculture extension service.
Lawmakers added $24.7 million to fully fund the state’s mandated school counselor ratio for the first time. They also fit in an additional $19.7 million to expand Medicaid to all post-partum mothers for up to six months, from the current two months—an effort to address Georgia’s maternal mortality crisis.
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