GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Domestic violence program:

Senate: cuts domestic violence program 15 percent, or $730,000

House: meant to cut 5 percent, but was mistakenly not included in budget

Perdue: No cut

Auditor's office:

Senate: Saves half the Performance Audit division, cutting $772,000

House: Eliminates division, cutting $1.5 million

Perdue: Tells Auditor's office to cut six unspecified jobs, saving $784,000

State historic sites:

Senate: Reduces budget 15 percent, or $1.5 million

House: no reductions

Perdue: no cuts

Museums:

Senate: closes Museum of the Albemarle, saving $959,000, Museum of the Cape Fear, saving $520,000

House: cuts $241,000 for the Cape Fear museum

Perdue: No cuts

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Community Care of North Carolina:

Senate: directs it to save $83 million in Medicaid spending

House: wants $90 million savings

Perdue: not in budget

Medicare provider rates:

Senate: cuts 3 percent, except for doctors, to save $71.4 million

House: cut 2 percent for $46.4 million savings

Perdue: no broad cuts

Medicaid spending:

Senate: eliminates money for home IVs to save $1.3 million and for spending on over-the-counter drugs to save $1.9 million

House: not in budget

Perdue: not in budget

Reserves:

Senate: Creates a $328 million reserve in 2012-13 to fund a state employee performance pay plan. The reserve does not include money for across-the-board raises.

House: No reserve in budget

Perdue: no reserve

TRANSPORTATION

Toll Roads and Bridges:

Senate: Eliminates funding and authorization for the $660 million Mid-Currituck Bridge to the Currituck Outer Banks and the $870 million Garden Parkway in Gaston and Mecklenburg counties, both expected to start construction next year.

House: No change for turnpike projects

Perdue: No change for turnpike projects

Ferry Tolls:

Senate: Charge tolls on all four ferries that are free now, including Hatteras-Ocracoke. Raise rates enough to bring in an additional $2.5 million the first year, $5 million the second year.

House: Have ferry riders pay more than the 7 percent share of costs now recovered in tolls. Charge tolls on two river ferries that are free now, and raise rates on three tolled ferries enough to bring in an additional $5 million in toll collections the first year, $7.5 million the second year.

Perdue: No toll changes

Driver's Education Class:

Senate: Keeps classes free

House: Cut $8.7 million in state funding, let schools charge students up to $75 for the class

Perdue: Keeps classes free

Light rail transit and commuter trains:

Senate: No state funding for planned extension of Charlotte's light rail line to the UNC-Charlotte campus, or for Charlotte's proposed North Corridor commuter trains. Cuts $20.8 million a year.

House: No change

Perdue: No change

Federal rail improvement grants:

Senate: Give legislature power to veto federal railroad grants that would commit the state to more than $20 million in matching funds or in annual maintenance costs.

House: Veto power would cover grants with state commitment over $5 million

Perdue: No legislative veto power over federal grants

TAXES

Tax rates:

Senate: Would cut individual tax rates by 1/4 percent for the 2012 and 2013 tax years. Part of a tax cut package estimated at $671 million.

House budget and Perdue's would not.

Sales tax:

Perdue: Would keep 3/4 of the temporary 1-cent sales tax. Projected revenue: $826.6 million

House and Senate budgets do not.

Corporate income tax:

Perdue: Cuts the rate from 6.9 percent to 4.9 percent.

House and Senate budgets do not.

Small business:

Senate: Individual income tax deduction of $50,000 for net business income in tax years 2012 and 2013.

House and governor's budget do not include this.

PUBLIC EDUCATION (K-12)

Teachers:

Senate: Would add funding for 1,124 teachers to reduce student-teacher ratio to 1:17 in grades 1-3 (It would not necessarily mean that classes would be that small, however, unless the state enacts firmer class size restrictions. The current ratio is 1:18 in those grades, though it's not unusual for classes to have 20-25 students).

Perdue and House: Include no line item reduction to teacher positions, but the House budget would require districts to make a discretionary cut of $42 million that could affect teachers.

Teacher assistants:

Senate: Eliminates $390 million in funding for teacher assistants in early grades, except in kindergarten classes, which would result in thousands of teacher assistants losing jobs.

House: Eliminates teacher assistants except in kindergarten and first grade.

Perdue: Holds the line on teacher assistants.

ENVIRONMENT-DENR

Senate: $167.7 million, 132.3 positions cut (tentative count)

House: $163.4 million, 206.7 positions cut

Perdue: $179.1 million, 101 positions cut.