Senate Bill 256 is on the floor of the state House Thursday, March 13, and is expected to pass. The measure passed the Senate earlier.

The dispute seems to be more over form than substance. Palin told House and Senate leaders in meetings March 10 and 11 that she is willing to discuss individual projects in the bill but disapproves of how the appropriations are being handled, in a supplemental bill rather than the regular state capital budget.

Legislative leaders told the governor that capital spending items have been in supplemental appropriations bills in previous years and that the administration itself has capital spending items in the supplemental bill.

If Palin vetoes the capital projects again, legislators will either override her veto or reinsert the projects in the regular fiscal year 2009 capital appropriations bill, Sen. Lyman Hoffman, co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee, told Palin during the meetings.