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Transportation budget vote delayed
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A vote on the state’s $9.6 billion transportation budget apparently will be delayed for at least a day while lawmakers try to add a provision that would immediately make it possible to use federal stimulus money to help pay for health insurance for some unemployed workers.
The vote on the budget had been scheduled for today after a House-Senate conference committee on Monday, March 30, gave unanimous approval to the two-year budget. The version the conference committee approved, however, lacked an emergency clause for the health insurance provision.
It takes 66 votes in the House to approve an emergency clause and Republicans said on Monday they didn’t have the 13 votes they would need to contribute. Democrats control the House 53-46.
Today, however, Republicans approached majority Democrats and said they wanted to come up with the votes, said Keary McCarthy, spokesman for House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood.
The conference committee now is scheduled to reconvene at 12:35 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1.
The insurance provision would save an average worker $750 a month for individual coverage and $2,063 a month for family coverage over the three-month period they would not otherwise have received the federal subsidy, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance.
The federal stimulus money would provide a 65 percent subsidy for the coverage.
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