Here's a list of budget bills awaiting final passage and what they would do if signed into law:Environment and Natural Resources
Cuts $40 million in funding for the Department of Natural Resources and $11 million from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Transportation
Cuts $109 million from Twin Cities transit.
Nixes planning funds for high-speed rail.
Jobs and Economic Development
Eliminates the Minnesota Trade Office.
Reduces or eliminates funding for a variety of programs administered by the Department of Employment and Economic Development.
State government
Reduces the workforce by 15 percent by 2015.
Cuts state agencies up to 20 percent.
Imposes a two-year salary freeze for state workers
Health and Human Services
Removes about 140,000 Minnesotans from state-backed health care programs.
Nullifies Gov. Mark Dayton's executive order to opt in to an expanded federal Medicaid program.
Replaces MinnesotaCare, which insures low-income Minnesotans, with a voucher program.
Public Safety
Trims funding for battered women's shelters and programs for crime victims.
Cuts legal assistance for low-income Minnesotans
Steeply reduces Community Crime Prevention Grants
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