The General Assembly is done for the night with plans to return at 10am in both the House and the Senate.  Leader predict a government shutdown will be avoided.

Votes will take place on a budget bill in both chambers.  The bill has a 1% increase for schools in the first year, .3% in the second after $54million was added to the Senate plan.  It has a billion dollar surplus and no restrictions on charter schools.

It also includes a CIB bailout that calls for an innkeeper tax hike only.

State Senate leaders predict passage and while House Speaker Pat Bauer says there won’t be many Democratic votes, House Republicans cheered the plan in caucus.