By Tony McVeigh
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FRANKFORT, Ky. -- – A special session of the Kentucky General Assembly gets underway Monday in Frankfort. The main item on the agenda is passage of a state budget, a task lawmakers failed to accomplish during the regular session that ended April 15th.
Mental health advocate Sheila Schuster says the special session is drawing sighs of relief from citizens across the commonwealth.
"We applaud the governor for coming forward with a compromise that apparently, from what I read and hear from media, apparently both House and Senate leadership have signed off on."
The governor's two-year, compromise spending plan includes no new taxes, some prioritized spending cuts and limited bonding. Gov. Beshear hopes the special session, which will cost taxpayers around $64,000 a day, won't last more than five days.