An Alabama Senate committee picked one of Gov. Kay Ivey’s budget proposals clean of many handouts Wednesday.

When Ivey initially introduced her budget plan, she proposed sending the majority of $2.8 billion of supplemental education funding to projects with limited, if any, connection to schools and colleges. Projects included funding for a Montgomery water park and a Mobile airport.

Senators dropped many of those projects and redirected funding to school safety, classroom instructional support and colleges.

Senate Budget Chair Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, told AL.com in March he didn’t know about many of the items in Ivey’s supplemental.

Read more: Alabama lawmakers got their hands on $2.8 billion in education funding. They can do it again.

Instead, Orr and other senators recommended creating a grant program to help schools fund capital projects and creating a specific system to manage excess revenue.

The K-12 Capital Grant Program would be administered by the lieutenant governor’s office and initially funded with $185 million. The program is described in more detail in SB269, which also passed out of committee.

The Educational Opportunities Reserve Fund would be initially funded with $500 million which could be made available under certain circumstances. The fund is described in a separate bill, SB101, which makes changes to the Rolling Reserve Act. SB101 was also approved by the committee.

The new budget package also appears to include $30 million that could help Birmingham-Southern College.

Items in the Senate committee proposal also :

• $40 million for school safety grants, up from $10 million in Ivey’s proposal,
• $20 million to fund some classroom instructional support materials for teachers so they don’t have to wait until the start of the fiscal year in October to access that funding,
• $15 million for funding based on outcomes for the four-year public universities,
• around $200 million for higher education projects at two- and four-year colleges was added.

The following items were reduced or dropped altogether:

• Tax rebates dropped from $967 million to $275 million,
• $200 million for the Main Street Program was dropped,
• $31 million for a statewide magnet school for healthcare sciences was dropped,
• Funding for Chamber of Commerce projects, including $31 million for a Mobile airport, $25 million for a Montgomery waterpark, and $25 million for the Port of Alabama were dropped from the Senate committee’s proposal.

The education budget package, which includes the $2.8 billion supplemental and the bills creating the grant program and new reserve fund are expected to be in the Senate chamber Thursday.

Teacher pay raises and other education funding are contained in a different pot of money, the Education Trust Fund. Learn more about that proposal here.

The Alabama House already has passed its General Fund budget.

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