CONCORD — Down partisan lines 4-2, the Senate Finance Committee approved a $5.5 billion, two-year budget plan Friday that members hope will elude Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto.
The budget plan includes a $17.5 million secure psychiatric unit to replace the current facility at the men’s prison in Concord, which had been a bone of contention between House budget writers and Sununu who proposed a 40-bed, $40 million facility on New Hampshire Hospital grounds.
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