The House passed a proposed biennial operating budget on Saturday. With a vote of 53-43, the budget now goes to the Senate.

With only two weeks left in the regular 2011 legislative session, the action taken by the House this weekend moves the state closer toward closing the budget gap and heading home.

The Senate is expected to release their proposed biennial budgets on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday the House Capital Budget Committee is expected to move the House’s proposed biennial capital budget out of committee and to the floor