TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Higher tuition for college students. State worker layoffs. Cuts to hospitals. Yet at the same time, boosts in funding for public schools as well as money to cover the state's popular back-to-school sales tax holiday.

Those details were included in a nearly $69.2 billion proposed spending plan for 2012, released by the Republican-controlled Florida House on Friday.

Heading into a crucial election year, the proposed budget on one hand embraces the push by Gov. Rick Scott to pump more money into education, but also rejects some of the extensive cuts in health care programs that he recommended.

Scott also proposed keeping tuition rates flat in the coming year, but legislators have instead recommended an 8 percent hike. That hike can go up to 15 percent under a law that lets universities charge above the rate legislators set each year.

House Speaker Dean Cannon called the initial House spending plan "intellectually honest" and said it did not rely on "phantom cuts" in order to balance the books. The House version of the budget is nearly $3 billion more than the one recommended by the governor last month.