Together, these two measures are supposed to save $250 million over the life of the two-year, $21 billion budget.

Officials say there is a $200million gap in the $30billion two-year budget.

That figure represents 2 percent of the state's two-year, $3.2 billion budget, which by law must be balanced.

The Legislature continued efforts to balance the state's $3.2 billion, two-year budget.

And it marked the first two-year budget ever prepared for the state, at least in modern times.

We will have a two-year budget in a sense this year.

Congress asked the Administration to present a two-year budget.

The state operates on a two-year budget with the fiscal year starting July 1.

The tax-cutting measure was expected to force the state to cut about $600 million from its two-year $5 billion budget.

Still, the $79.9 billion two-year budget just passed did not have any major tax increases.