Topeka ? Douglas County will get a new judge position and support staff within the $10.2 billion state budget that won legislative approval today.

Both the Senate and the House approved the bill this morning, sending it to the governor.

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Under judicial expenditures in the spending plan, the state would provide $112,000 to set up a new district court judge position and two staff members in Douglas County. The funding would be efffective Jan. 1, 2005.

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