On final day of legislative session, lawmakers have yet to pass a budget

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published March 29, 2023 at 7:09 AM EDT

The Georgia House and Senate have yet to pass the state's $32.4 billion budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which begins on July 1, 2023.

The latest version of the budget that passed the state Senate envisions $6,000 pay raises for state troopers, GBI investigators, and game wardens, and $2,000 for teachers and other state employees the spending.

But, the plan also cuts funding to the University System of Georgia and Georgia Public Broadcasting. Governor Kemp is pushing legislators to approve a bill that would provide $6,500 per year in vouchers to attend private school.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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