US EditionSources: Pennsylvania Lawmakers Nearing Votes on $50.1 Billion State Budget Deal
The $50.1 billion budget deal ended a 130-day stalemate, balancing Republican calls to protect a $7 billion fund with Democratic education spending goals.
- On Tuesday, Pennsylvania lawmakers in Harrisburg reached a tentative $50.1 billion budget agreement after hours-long House and Senate caucus meetings, ending more than 100 days without a state budget.
- Republican leaders pushed to protect Pennsylvania rainy day fund and control spending, while House Democrats prioritized increased education funding and a phased exit from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
- Education and health line items include increased funding for K-12 public schools, with $178 million in cyber charter reform savings, $747 million for Medical Assistance Managed Care, and $45 million for municipal traffic signals.
- Lawmakers will convene Wednesday morning to take up the spending bills, with both chambers expected to vote on the plan as counties, school districts and social service providers welcome an end to the impasse despite no specific SEPTA funding.
- With funds stalled over 130 days, Altoona approved a potential loan up to $40 million, and Share Food Program faces cuts and surging demand, as George Matysik said, `So over the course of the last year or so, the Share Food Program has seen a total cut of about $8.5 million... 12 fold increase in new registrants over the last two weeks`.
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How new PA budget impacts Chester County schools
For more than four months, public school officials across Pennsylvania waited and worried. As a stalemate between Republican and Democratic lawmakers pushed passage of the state’s budget back further and further, school districts missed payments. Basic education subsidies — school districts’ largest streams of state money — didn’t arrive. Neither did funds to help pay for special education or construction projects or to help shrink the funding g…
How new PA budget impacts Chester County schools
For more than four months, public school officials across Pennsylvania waited and worried. As a stalemate between Republican and Democratic lawmakers pushed passage of the state’s budget back further and further, school districts missed payments. Basic education subsidies — school districts’ largest streams of state money — didn’t arrive. Neither did funds to help pay for special education or construction projects or to help shrink the funding g…
Who are the winners and losers in the final Pa. budget bargain?
By Zack Hoopes, pennlive.com After 19 weeks of a budget impasse that affected many areas of life among Pennsylvanians, the short-term political problems have been solved through a series of give-and-take compromises. The long-term political problems remain. The quick version of this year’s budget impasse is that Democrats offered to come down from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s original budget request, which featured $51.5 billion in general fund spending,…
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LebTown$50.1B budget that ends impasse sends $565M to needy schools, makes key climate concession
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