ERIK SCHELZIG
Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE – House Speaker Kent Williams says negotiations with the state Senate could lead to an agreement on the state’s annual spending plan by the end of this week.
Williams, an Elizabethton independent, said in an interview Monday that the House is seeking to restore cuts to state mental health and children’s services programs and to give state workers a bonus, “no matter how small.”
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris of Collierville said the original GOP proposal envisioned that the House would seek to restore some of the deeper cuts.