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DENVER—The Colorado House has given initial approval to a bipartisan package of bills to cut about $300 million from the state budget to avoid major cuts to higher education.
The budget approved Thursday would ask the governor to force state employees to take up to eight furlough days in the fiscal year beginning July 1, cut provider rates for private prisons and medical providers, delay a major water project and raise tobacco taxes.
The budget faces a third reading before it goes back to the Senate for consideration of House amendments.
