About $43 million in spending, mainly for public safety programs, is stalled in the disagreement between Gov. John Bel Edwards and House Republican leaders over state income projections.
Sheriffs likely will get the funding they’re owed later in the year, and the Office of Juvenile Justice says it can make it through the budget cycle without the money it hoped to receive.
But the corrections department, which gave prison guards a raise without the full financing for it, may have a harder time without the dollars.
The final budget bill passed earlier this year contained $43 million in items to receive financing if Louisiana brings in more money than currently forecast.
Economists recommended boosting this year’s forecast Tuesday. But House Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry blocked the increase, calling it premature.