Thursday, July 2, 2015

Budget Update

The House and Senate Republicans passed a budget on June 30th, which the Governor promptly vetoed.  However, legislative leaders met with the Governor the next day and all sides stated that they were still making efforts to find agreement on a General Fund budget.

However, the lack of a spending plan in place at the beginning of the July 1st Fiscal Year leaves the potential for vendors and human service organizations to be cut off from needed state funds. As reported by PLS, One thing all parties agreed to after Wednesday’s meeting was that staff meetings would begin immediately on topics, but substantive budget negotiations between the governor and legislative leaders would not begin again until after the July 4th holiday.

“We’re going to be working between now and the weekend, and then on Monday all sides are going to sit down to work with working groups,” said Gov. Wolf. “We now have two plans out there, mine and the plan that came out last night, and we’re going to sit down and spend how long it takes and make sure we are on the same page.”

Once a plan is agreed upon it could be up to 3 weeks of legislative process to see it passed and signed.

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