As always, the Senate is going to divvy up its share of the money equally among the 17 senatorial districts. And the House will continue to use no formula because it's less practical there. And it is also less politically useful if you subscribe to the popular theory that the House leadership uses this as a discipline tool to keep the troops in line. The bottom line is that the actual decisions are still going to be made next month, just before the new budget year begins and long after the full House and Senate membership voted on the main budget bill. Everyone seems to think so.
Key legislators claim they have fulfilled the demands of the court.
And those who filed the lawsuit claim victory in the fact there is now more exposure to the details. Just remember, all this came with no real change in policy. . . But the suggestion that the final Senate passage vote on the bill was improper is really grasping at straws. The argument here is that only a majority of those present in the Senate the day of the vote, not a majority of the 34 elected Senators, voted for the bill on the 17-15 tally. Two of the members were absent and paired their votes in a standard procedural move that doesn't count in the official vote.