The Missouri House of Representatives plans to debate a roughly $48 billion state budget proposal this week. Speaker Jonathan Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, said his chamber is set to debate the fiscal plan on Tuesday and pass the package on Thursday.

The House Budget Committee’s version of the plan is about $5 billion lower than Gov. Mike Kehoe’s budget request.

Highlights include a reduction in the governor’s pay raise proposals for state workers and eliminating a pay boost for correctional officers working in higher security areas.

The governor wants the state to spend an extra $107 million in federal funds on childcare and to send subsidy payments to providers at the beginning of the month instead of the end of the month. The other change he requested is to calculate payments based on enrollment instead of actual attendance.

The ranking Democrat on the committee, Springfield Rep. Betsy Fogle, said she’s disappointed the committee tossed out Kehoe’s request.

“If this was one small step that we could take to support working families back home, I would like to see us do it. And to me, that’s the most striking difference between the governor’s version of the budget and what we’re going to pass out of the House,” said Fogle.

Republicans questioned whether the federal dollars would be available in the years to come.

The line item could be added back in by the House or Senate at a later time.

The committee backs Kehoe’s request to fund the formula used to finance K-12 public education to the tune of $3.8 billion. The figure is a record increase of $200 million for the formula, but it underfunds the calculation by $300 million.

At the same time, the panel went with the governor’s plan to designate $50 million in scholarships to send K-12 students to private school.

After the House votes on the budget outline, the proposal heads to the Senate for more number crunching.