AUGUSTA — Friday’s late afternoon release of Gov. Paul LePage’s biennial budget proposal didn’t leave lawmakers or reporters much time to digest the contents of the document, which spans hundreds of pages.

More details will emerge in the coming days, along with plaudits and criticisms from the constituencies that LePage’s ideas will help or hurt. The most significant proposal in the General Fund budget (the Highway Fund budget also was released Friday) was the governor’s extensive tax reform initiative.

The short of it is, LePage wants to reduce corporate and personal income tax rates while broadening and increasing the sales tax. The budget also calls for elimination of the home mortgage deduction, the homestead exemption for people under age 65, municipal revenue sharing and the estate tax.

Here’s a sample of some of the other items in the budget that involve the finance department, education and human services:

— LePage proposes to cut more state jobs. It appears that most of those cuts will involve positions that are vacant. Putting a number on how many positions will be eliminated is tricky because it’s happening across state government, and there are several examples of employees or positions being moved from one department to another. The scope of the initiative is clear, though: Moving the attrition rate from 1.6 percent to 3 percent in the next two years will save the state some $10.8 million.

— LePage wants to build on the largely failed Baldacci-era school administration consolidation. LePage said during a news conference on Friday that he won’t increase general purpose aid to K-12 public schools — they’re essentially flat-funded in this budget proposal at about $929 million per year — until school systems show him that they’re saving significant money through cuts and efficiencies. To that end, LePage proposes a competitive grant program — $5 million statewide in fiscal year 2016 and $5 million in 2017 — to help school districts consolidate their administrations.

— The budget proposes spending about $1.1 million to create a new system to collect liquor excise taxes.

— The budget would reduce state funding for teacher retirement costs by about $35 million in fiscal year 2016 and $31 million in fiscal year 2017. This could be a continuation of LePage’s long-running efforts to shift a percentage of retirement costs to municipalities. Up until his biennial budget two years ago, which pushed 5 percent of those costs to towns and cities, the state was paying 100 percent.

— The governor proposes allocating $1 million in each of the next two years to fund legal challenges by the executive branch in which the attorney general declines to represent the state. LePage and Attorney General Janet Mills, a Democrat, have clashed repeatedly over the legality of some of his policy initiatives and rulemaking.

— LePage is proposing robust new funding to help people suffering from mental illness, including some $13 million in new money for the Bridging Rental Assistance Program; $11.6 million for funding programs required by the state’s mental health consent decree; and more than $30 million over the biennium to eliminate waitlists for Section 21 Tier II and III home- and community-based services. There is additional new funding to reduce service waitlists for adults with autism and brain injuries.

— There is increased funding proposed for Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, which has lost its certification from the U.S. Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services and could as a result lose $20 million annually in federal funding. Among the new investments proposed by LePage are for training and new positions.

— LePage proposes to cut the Low-cost Drugs for the Elderly Program by more than $1.2 million over the biennium.