Patrick Signs 10-day Interim State Budget
Governor Deval Patrick this week signed a $1.25 billion stopgap budget to keep state government operating while lawmakers complete work on a final spending plan for the 2012 fiscal year that begins Friday July 1. At stake in the budget process is the fate of many proposed changes, such as two provisions noted elsewhere in this newsletter - elimination of the 10-day bedhold and details of the new HomeBASE homelessness prevention program.
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