The Joint Finance Committee axed 21 items in Gov. Jim Doyle's budget Thursday, but those changes must be approved by the Legislature and Doyle before they become law.
JFC co-chairs state Sen. Dean Kaufert, R-Neenah, and state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, said they removed only policy items, which did not pertain to the state's fiscal situation, from the budget.
Among the deleted items: a proposal to repeal the Qualified Economic Offer, a teacher salary cap, and a proposal to charge cheaper in-state tuition to illegal immigrants in the UW System.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has allocated $667,000 toward testing for chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin deer, U.S. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., announced Thursday.
The money will pay for the state Department of Natural Resources to test the deer. It adds to the $218,000 the state received earlier this week for CWD surveillance and control. Wisconsin has received more anti-CWD funding than any other state.
The funds come out of the $14.9 million allocation for fighting CWD from a federal agriculture funding bill Congress adopted earlier this year.
