NASHVILLE – Republican legislative leaders want to strip $25.5 million in one-time contingency funding from the state budget, according to a schedule outlining Senate Republicans’ ideas.
Among the seven projects or programs that would be affected is a $16.1 million fish hatchery that Gov. Phil Bredesen has proposed to build in the home district of House Speaker Kent Williams, the Elizabethton independent.
Other cuts outlined in the schedule include a $5 million appropriation for the U.S. Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and $4 million for demolition work at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.