Beebe is sent money bills on eve of session's end

By Charlie Frago , Michael Wickline

Photo by Steve Keesee

State Sen. Shane Broadway (from left) and state Reps. Bruce Maloch and Eddie Cheatham confer Wednesday after their three plans proposed for constitutional amendments where merged into one and passed in committee. Two dealt with the state's interest-rate caps and the other with the issuing of governmental revenue bonds to finance energy-efficiency projects.

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The Arkansas House of Representatives and the state Senate sent to the governor Wednesday bills to distribute money in the state's projected $4.5 billion general revenue budget next fiscal year and spend about $310 million in surplus, mostly for onetime projects.

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