But Pati Urias, spokeswoman for the Children's Action Alliance, said Arizona is free to drop out any time it wants, just as it did in 2010.

Other things not in Ducey's budget include:

- Reinstating the requirement for the state to provide aid to community college for new construction according to certain formulas. In fact, the net bottom line in state aid is a cut of $276,600;

- Restoring the money the state now takes from vehicle license fees and gasoline taxes that would normally go toward road construction and maintenance. Instead, Ducey actually increases that transfer to the Department of Public Safety to $97.2 million;

- Providing new dollars to the Department of Water Resources. While the governor has said finding and preserving the state's water supply is a top priority, the support for the agency from the general fund is about half of what it was in 2007.

And the governor plans no pay hike for state employees despite a recommendation from his own Department of Administration to add $10.8 million to the budget to account for the fact that salaries of state workers are 19 percent below market rates, leading to high turnover.

Still, there are things on which Ducey wants to spend more tax dollars.