Highlights of the 2009-10 state budget, the first year of a two-year spending blueprint North Carolina legislators were scheduled to vote on Tuesday and Wednesday:
TAXES
- Increase sales tax rate by one penny through July 2011. $803
million
- New surtax on state taxes paid by individual taxpayers for tax
years 2009 and 2010. $172 million
- Create temporary corporate income tax surtax. $23.1 million.
- Higher cigarette and alcohol excise taxes. $68.8 million

SCHOOLS
- Cut to public schools. The State Board of Education shall
apportion the cut among 115 school districts based on enrollment.
$225 million.
- Reduced funding for school bus maintenance and salaries. $15
milliion.
- Increase dropout prevention grants. $13 million.
- Reduce funding for More at Four, which provites free preschool
for at-risk 4-year-olds. $5 million.
- Fund 8 percent increase in community college enrollment. $58
million.
- Meet projected enrollment growth at University of North
Carolina system campuses. $44.2 million

HUMAN SERVICES
- Reduce funding for Smart Start early childhood program. $16
million.
- Cut AIDS drug assistance program. $3 million.
- Provide grant to six regional food banks. $1 million.
- State takes over the last of county obligations for Medicaid
cost-sharing. $253 million.
- Increase allowance for projected Medicaid growth. $155
million.
- Cut Medicaid rates paid to doctors and other healthcare
providers. $76 million.