Appropriates the funds for state programs and agencies for the 2013-15 biennium, as well as making supplemental appropriations for 2011-13. The General Fund budget totals $ 33.6 billion and includes an additional $1 billion for public schools. It also freezes higher education tuition rates for one year. Overall, the budget is about $2.5 billion more than the 2011-13 budget ($31.1 billion.) The budget considerations contain about $300 million saved by suspending cost-of-living increases for education employees (See HB 2043) and about $ 85 million by ending the sales tax exemption on residential phone land lines (see HB 1971)..