By Walter C. Jones
Athens Banner-Herald
April 12, 2010
The week-long legislative recess that ended this morning didn’t change any minds about one critical budget disagreement between the House and Senate, one senior senator said today.
Lawmakers have been in recess since April 1 when the Senate sweetened legislation to levy a 1.45 percent tax on hospital revenues by adding a provision to eliminate a different tax — the one on health insurance premiums.
When House leaders learned about the tax break, they held up their version of the budget in anger. The House version is calculated on the tax-collection assumptions from the original bill.
Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers told reporters that the Senate isn’t giving in.
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