AUGUSTA (AP) – With bargainers grinding through a review of ways to trim $250 million from the pending state budget, lawmakers demonstrated strong support Friday for a separate $100 million package of adjustments to the $5.7 billion two-year spending plan.

The so-called Part II supplemental measure passed in the House of Representatives on a vote of 130-17 and in the Senate on a tally of 28-6.

Negotiators on the Appropriations Committee that produced the package praised cooperative contributions of Democrats and Republicans.

“It was put together in the way budgets of old were put together,” said House Chairman Joseph Brannigan, D-Portland.

Added Republican Rep. Sawin Millett of Waterford: “I think it bodes well for the future.”

Millett’s optimism will get a demanding test over the weekend, as Appropriations panelists and legislative leaders continue discussions with Baldacci administration officials over ways to replace a controversial borrowing plan in the biennial budget.

In the supplemental budget package, key compromises involved a revised allocation of funds owed to hospitals and the establishment of a Medicaid drug policy aimed at promoting less expensive prescriptions by doctors.

An extension of so-called tax-and-match assessments on mental retardation service providers was pegged at a worth of $12 million.

The establishment of a modified drug formulary – a tightening of prescription drug access for Medicaid beneficiaries – was designed to produce $11 million in savings, down from $19 million proposed by Gov. John Baldacci.

The package earmarks $9 million available for hospitals, down from $29 million, to help offset a loss of federal funding.

Legislative negotiators on Thursday opened a close review of dozens of savings proposals. Further discussions were put off during the day on Friday while the House and Senate were in session. Democratic and Republican negotiators were expected to meet separately to refine caucus positions.