JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri budget negotiators pressed ahead Tuesday with retaliatory cuts for agencies caught up in a controversy involving driver's licenses and concealed gun permits but rewarded public education institutions with millions of additional state dollars. The give-and-take approach highlights a new political reality at the Missouri Capitol. Improved state revenues have created the potential for funding hikes, but the Republican supermajority in the Legislature has been increasingly forceful in objecting to the policies of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's administration. A panel of House and Senate members was putting the finishing touches Tuesday on the final version of Missouri's 2014 budget, which takes effect July 1, by reconciling differences between versions previously approved by the two chambers. The state constitution requires lawmakers to pass a budget by Friday. This year, the budget process has been overshadowed by Republican anger about a new Department of Revenue policy requiring clerks to make electronic copies of personal documents such as birth certificates or concealed gun permits when people apply for Missouri driver's licenses or identification cards. Nixon has since halted the copying of concealed gun permits but has continued accumulating copies of other documents in a state database that administrators say helps fight fraud. Republican lawmakers contend the document copying is an invasion of privacy. They also have raised concerns that the Missouri State Highway Patrol provided a list of concealed gun permit holders to a fraud investigator in the U.S. Social Security Administration — even though the investigator never ultimately used the list. On Tuesday, budget negotiators agreed to cut the budget for the Revenue Department's motor vehicle division by one-third because of its new licensing procedures. Lawmakers said the money amounted to eight months of full funding, and the agency could get the rest if it has stopped copying and retaining documents when lawmakers re-convene next January.