The state Senate plans to draft its version of a state budget quickly, after the Assembly vote to approve a $62.2 billion, two-year spending plan early Saturday.
“We will be busy over the next few days reviewing the changes the Assembly made to the budget so we can have the budget on the floor of the Senate as soon as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker (D-Weston) said in a statement Saturday.
That set up a timetable that could put the budget on Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s desk by July 1: a Senate vote Wednesday or Thursday, reconciliation of Assembly-Senate differences over the next few days, and votes on the final budget deal in the Assembly and the Senate the week of June 22.