LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a new state spending plan that includes an additional $41 million for child welfare services, disaster aid and other priorities.

The budget-adjustment bill won first-round approval Wednesday in the Legislature. The measure updates the state’s $7 billion, two-year budget that passed last year.

The proposal includes $24 million for child care subsidies, and $18.5 million to reduce the caseloads and address other problems within the state’s child welfare system.

It also would increase the reimbursement paid to doctors, hospitals and nursing homes that serve Medicaid patients. The partial rate increase would cost $9.6 million, to offset a rate cut that lawmakers approved last year.

The plan adds nearly $9 million to the governor’s emergency program to help cover a recent increase in natural disasters.