The Senate plans to vote on its version of the 2009-11 state budget plan as early as tomorrow, said an aide to Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, co-chairman of the Legislature’s budget committee.
Senate Democrats plan to meet this afternoon to discuss the budget, then take it to the floor Tuesday “if we can and get through it relatively quickly,” said Miller aide John Anderson.
Anderson said it’s unclear whether the Senate will work off the version approved by Miller’s committee or the bill narrowly approved last week by the Assembly, which included some key changes to the committee plan. Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Waunakee, said it’s his understanding the Senate will use the budget committee’s spending plan rather than the Assembly’s.