(Providence, RI) -- The Rhode Island General Assembly has passed a budget for the 2021 fiscal year. The budget, which goes to Governor Raimondo's desk, memorializes the planned use of one-point-two-five-billion dollars in federal coronavirus relief funds which are coming up on a December 30th deadline to use, according to a State House press release. It includes over a half-dozen bond referendums that will be put before voters in a special election, totaling four-hundred-million dollars.
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