House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Senate President Joe Negron announced on Thursday they had reached an agreement on budget allocations. Allocations determine how much money will go to each broad area of the budget. The agreement between the leaders allowed the formal process of negotiating differences between the two chambers' spending plans to begin Thursday afternoon. Lawmakers are trying to approve a budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 before the scheduled May 5 end of the legislative session. Last week, as legislators prepared for budget negotiations, the FCCB outlined recommendations on several priorities in a
letter to House Appropriations Chairman Carlos Trujillo.