The state legislature's non-partisan research staff released its projections for the state budget on Thrusday.
The projections found that Governor Sam Brownback's plan for eliminating the $279 million dollar hole in the state budget is pushing most of the problem into the state's next fiscal year.
Governor Brownback's plan relies heavily on diverting revenues from other funds to help finance general government programs.
But the staff's projections found that--absent a long-term solution, the gap between anticipated revenues and spending in the next fiscal year, will widen.
The budget gaps arose after aggressive personal income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013 to stimulate the state's economy.
The reductions are expected to save taxpayers $1.3 billion in the current and next fiscal years.
Legislative researchers' new budget projections show Brownback's plan closes the current fiscal year's shortfall. But a shortfall for the next fiscal year - previously projected at $436 million - would grow to $648 million.
