Rhode Island House passes nearly $10 billion budget

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island’s House of Representatives has passed a nearly $10 billion state budget.

The Democratic-controlled House passed the budget approved the budget 64 to 9, voting along party lines, Saturday.

The $9.97 billion budget would expand the state’s pre-kindergarten program and add six new medical marijuana dispensaries, bringing the total to nine. It would create a board of trustees for the University of Rhode Island.

It doesn’t include the governor’s proposals for legalizing recreational marijuana, expanding the state’s free college tuition program, increasing the minimum wage or adding several new taxes.

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