With mid-year budget holdbacks hitting, lawmakers on the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will gather for their interim meeting this week to examine what's going on with the state budget, impacts of cuts already approved earlier this year and more. Among the agenda items for the two-day meeting that starts Wednesday: How school districts are coping with this year's budget cuts; impacts of statewide personnel cuts; an update on cuts in health insurance for part-time state employees; and how state prisons and Medicaid are coping with the holdbacks.

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