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Posted at 4:27 p.m., Friday, April 28, 2006

Lingle approves emergency funding

Advertiser Staff

Gov. Linda Lingle today signed two bills into law that provide emergency funding for various state operations.

One bill appropriates $4,908,748 in general funds to the Department of Education to pay for electricity costs.

The other bill provides an emergency approriation of $1.5 million in general funds and raises the state's insurance revolving fund ceiling by $6.5 million to cover higher insurance costs for this year.