Strickland signs budget
July 1, 2007 By William Hershey Staff Writer Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland on Saturday [6/30/07] signed the $52.3 billion, two-year state budget, which included a ban on the municipal income tax that Riverside has been imposing on some civilian employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Strickland used his line-item veto 38 times, including to cancel a pilot program of vouchers of up to $20,000 a year that as many as 8,000 special education students could use at private schools... Strickland also vetoed two provisions requiring that abstinence only be taught exclusively in sex education programs. By removing the language, Strickland believes that the money — $1 million from the state for abstinence and adoption education and an estimated $1.6 million from the federal government — can be used for comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education, including abstinence, said Keith Dailey, Strickland's spokesman.
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