Hoosier schools would see a modest bump in funding and the cigarette tax would increase by $1 a pack under a budget plan released Wednesday by House Republicans. The two-year plan would provide $273 million in new dollars to K-12 schools, a smaller increase than what they saw during the last budget cycle. And it seeks to make the House GOP’s roads funding plan a reality, in part, by increasing the cigarette tax to bring in $280 million a year.
