FRANKFORT -- House and Senate leaders have reached a tentative agreement on a plan to plug a nearly $996 million projected budget shortfall for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Lawmakers made a handful of changes to Gov. Steve Beshear's budget proposal, which spends more than $740 million in federal stimulus dollars and cuts $200 million in planned spending to rectify the shortfall. Among other things, the compromise budget deletes a provision in Beshear's proposal that would require st
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