Legislative Budget Board staff members said a change in budget rules means the vetoed money is off limits until January 2009. They said lawmakers would have to shift money from some another agency to pay for college employees' health insurance, and then repay the affected agency through a supplemental budget bill.
Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who supports restoring all of the money, said state leaders face a "real impediment."
"We've got a hell of a problem," he said.
- Associated Press
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