...version. The spending plan also would open up thousands of slots for state residents on waiting lists for community-based health services, provide hefty raises for law enforcement officers and build hundreds of new prison beds to ease overcrowding...

...smoking, providing health insurance to more uninsured Georgians, reducing the waiting list for home- and community-based health services and putting a nurse in every public school in the state. "I feel like we've got a good balance," said...

...waiting lists of 4,000 people seeking a waiver from Medicaid rules making them eligible for home- and community-based health services. That idea was included in the board's proposal. Mr. Barnes will sort through the recommendations...