RICHMOND — After prolonged, sometimes animated negotiations between lawmakers on the tenth floor of the General Assembly building in Richmond Saturday, House and Senate budget negotiators had reached an accord on amendments to the state’s two year budget in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

With college basketball highlights playing on televisions nearby, legislators hammered out the definition of the fine print, with some back-and-forth chatter arising over items accounting for mere slivers out of the two-year, $80 billion budget.