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By JEFF NELSON
Anindcl Newspaper* State Writer
RICHMOND—Gov. L. Douglas Wilder proposes 9 percent cuts in all state agencies but also calls for new spending for education and child health care in his budget released Wednesday.
The new budget calls for more than $350 million in, new spending for education, money that will be subject, however, to a possibly new form of distribution. Education Sec. James Dyke said the administration’s plan to deal with disparity in education funding will be unveiled Jan. 9 in Richmond.
To make up for the new spending and to cover a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion, some agencies will be drastically cut.
The Center for Innovative Technology, based in Loudoun County, faces a one year $13.7 million cut and may lose all state funding in 1994 subject to further study, according to the budget. The center had bean getting approximately $20 million a year in state funding.
The new budget proposes one new tax and rescinds tax breaks the General Assembly put in place in earlier sessions. Gov. Wilder is proposing a new user fee for hospitals to cover $68 million of the estimated $300 million in new money for Medicaid payments.
. Gov. Wilder plans to delay additional
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