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By Matt Pelkey
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The school funding bills that recently cleared first hurdles in the Virginia General Assembly and were sent on to finance committees will be whittled down to reduce their fiscal impact on the state.
An analysis of the House and Senate bills found that they w ould cast the state more1 than $8 million a year — a price that county officials and sponsors of the bill think w ould be hard for the finance committees to sw allow.
“Basically it would kill it in the eyes of the General Assembly," said Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy.
Before being brought before finance committees in the coming weeks — where their fiscal impact will face scrutiny — the two bills will be reworded to drop their cost to about $1 million.
The bills, S.B. 589 and H.B. 986, would make Rappahannock eligible to enter into a
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