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Indiana smoking ban, money issues still face votes
Updated: Thursday, 08 Mar 2012, 7:23 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 08 Mar 2012, 7:23 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana lawmakers plan on ending this year's session on Friday, but still must decide whether they're going to approve a statewide smoking ban and how quickly the state inheritance tax should be phased out.
Final approval also is needed on a plan that would end fees for full-day kindergarten by directing about $80 million in state money to school districts for those programs.
That bill also makes a one-time additional payment of $6 million for victims of last summer's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse.
Budget leaders have agreed on the proposed phase-out of the state inheritance tax, but some legislators argue the 10-year time span is too long.
Legislators also are still talking about whether bars should be exempted from the smoking ban.
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