S2023 appropriates $50,640,229,000 in State funds and $24,082,639,850 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2022-2023.
The General Assembly passed S2023 on June 29, 2022 by a vote of 48 to 30. The enormous budget of the second-most indebted state in the union grows ever larger. This massive state budget contains allocations for such items as a five-million-dollar “Council on Green Jobs,” and a nearly million-dollar “Hemp Farming Fund.” Out-of-control spending is a crisis at both the state and federal levels. It must be a priority for conservatives that government at all levels gets its fiscal house in order.