Legislators spent Monday morning at the Capitol reviewing the details of a $80 million funding package of relief for communities damaged by floods and tornadoes, with a special session scheduled for this afternoon to vote on the bill.

The proposal, which grew out of an agreement between DFL leaders and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, calls for spending $38 million from the general fund, borrowing $38 million by selling bonds and tapping the highway fund for the rest.

The money would go for repairing or rebuilding public buildings and other public property and could become part of about $140 million in state and federal assistance.

The federal government declined a request for grants to individual property owners. But the state says it will receive about $19 million for low-interest federal Small Business Administration loans, which would free up an additional $4 million in loans under a state program. Over 600 families had homes or businesses that were severely damaged.

The Senate and House bills were presented without any significant resistence at a series of committee meetings Monday morning.

The bills crafted in the DFL-led House and Senate include language that assumes that the arrival of federal stimulus money next year for medical assistance will allow the state to shift money to pay for the relief. It also says that any cash surplus goes to the general fund before any unallotments by the next governor. Pawlenty's use of unallotments to balance the budget has been a sore point for the DFL.