Legislators are waiting to see if the budgets they helped craft will pass untouched or if Governor Terry Branstad will use his line-item veto power. The governor has begun reviewing the budget bills assembled during the 2015 session, which ended a week ago.

State Representative Dave Heaton is chair of the House’s Health and Human Services Budget Committee. He says he’s not sure if the governor will leave in the portion of the budget that keeps the Mental Health Institute in Mount Pleasant open.

Under the bill, the MHI would receive funding to operate as it was July 1st of 2014, when it was providing adult acute psychiatric and dual diagnosis substance abuse care. The governor’s budget did not allocate funding for the facility, effectively closing it June 30th.