US EditionPennsylvania Senate Passes Flat Budget, Advances Transit Funding Bill
The budget holds spending flat amid a $213 million SEPTA deficit with ongoing disputes over the amount of new funding needed to avoid service cuts and fare hikes.
- Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Senate passed a $47.6 billion flat budget and a $292.5 million mass transit funding bill on Tuesday amid an ongoing budget impasse.
- The budget deadlock involves Governor Josh Shapiro and Democratic members of the House clashing with Senate Republicans over the levels of new expenditures and the methods of financing them.
- The transit funding bill extends the SEPTA special prosecutor's authority, mandates annual fare increases tied to inflation, and classifies assaults on transit workers as first-degree felonies.
- Senate Appropriations Chairman Scott Martin highlighted a budget gap where revenue is projected at $45 billion, but the House aims to allocate $50.5 billion, and the governor proposes $51.5 billion in spending.
- The budget impasse threatens a 21.5% SEPTA fare increase and 20% service cuts starting August 24, risking elimination of bus routes and rail service reductions before the school year.
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