HARTFORD — With eight Democrats voting against the new budget, the House narrowly passed a $19.7 billion spending package that will take effect July 1. More than $220 million is expected to be cut in benefits for non-unionized employees, through a hiring freeze and normal attrition, and through at least 2,000 layoffs of unionized state workers. Republicans, with a 64-87 House minority, said the budget process was flawed and that the product itself does not contain the long-term changes needed to lift Connecticut out of a continued cycle of revenue shortfalls and higher spending. Wilms called for major concessions from state unions, including high-deductible health savings accounts to take the place of expensive insurance plans. Republican amendments including raids on the state’s public fund for elections, financed through abandoned property in the landmark 2005 law passed in response to the pay-to-play scandal that sent John G.
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