Senate chambers during Tuesday's voting.
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COLUMBIA (AP) -- State agencies in South Carolina are scrambling to figure out how to deal with deep budget cuts.
Hundreds of state workers and teachers will lose their jobs and thousands more will have to take days off without pay during the fiscal year that starts Thursday.
Specific numbers on jobs and programs cut remain largely uncertain.
The nearly $5 billion state spending plan for 2010-11 is $2 billion less than it was two years ago. The House upheld 51 of Gov. Mark Sanford's 107 vetoes two weeks ago, cutting an additional $48 million. State senators upheld four more Tuesday, totaling $247,000.
Senators initially voted to uphold cuts to film industry incentives, search and rescue operations, school bus fuel, and the replacement of decade-old computer textbooks and software. But they later overturned those.
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