\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania lawmakers are nearing the end of a lengthy budget impasse, with the state House passing a $50.1 billion spending plan earlier today.COMING UP | Senate and House Republicans are expected to hold a news conference at 1:15 p.m. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. Months-long budget impassePennsylvania lawmakers are working to finalize a budget that has been delayed for more than 130 days, with the state House passing a $50.1 billion spending plan. The budget represents an increase of $2.27 billion from last year, facilitated by concessions from House Democrats on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.The budget plan leaves the state with roughly $200 million in reserves while keeping the rainy day fund untouched. It includes $565 million in adequacy and tax equity funding for schools in need, as part of an effort to meet a court ruling on school funding.”So, it’s really important for non-profits like this one just getting started. Or nonprofits that have been around community for a long time, like rape crisis centers, county governments, school districts. We need to get a budget done,” Rep. Nate Davidson said.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Pennsylvania lawmakers are nearing the end of a lengthy budget impasse, with the state House passing a $50.1 billion spending plan earlier today.<\/p>\n
COMING UP | Senate and House Republicans are expected to hold a news conference at 1:15 p.m. <\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. <\/p>\n
Months-long budget impasse<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania lawmakers are working to finalize a budget that has been delayed for more than 130 days, with the state House passing a $50.1 billion spending plan. <\/p>\n
The budget represents an increase of $2.27 billion from last year, facilitated by concessions from House Democrats on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.<\/p>\n
The budget plan leaves the state with roughly $200 million in reserves while keeping the rainy day fund untouched. It includes $565 million in adequacy and tax equity funding for schools in need, as part of an effort to meet a court ruling on school funding.<\/p>\n
“So, it’s really important for non-profits like this one just getting started. Or nonprofits that have been around community for a long time, like rape crisis centers, county governments, school districts. We need to get a budget done,” Rep. Nate Davidson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers are nearing the end of a lengthy budget impasse, with the state House passing a $50.1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20318,20319,20320,20321,20322,20324,3525,222,89,20325,18187,18189,3769,5927,33,20330,20323,5914,3408,8270,6016,28,10083,30,692,29,13842,20326,5034,2763,7724,9097,521,4479,20327,20329,11986,20328],"class_list":["post-32206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-2-27-billion-increase","tag-200-million-reserves","tag-50-1-billion-spending-plan","tag-565-million-for-schools","tag-130-day-delay","tag-adequacy-funding","tag-afternoon","tag-budget","tag-budget-impasse","tag-concessions","tag-county-government","tag-county-governments","tag-court-ruling","tag-house-democrats","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-months-long-budget-impassepennsylvania-lawmaker","tag-nate-davidson","tag-need","tag-news-conference","tag-nonprofits","tag-part","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-budget","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-legislature","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-public-schools","tag-rainy-day-fund","tag-rape-crisis-center","tag-rape-crisis-centers","tag-regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative","tag-rggi","tag-school","tag-school-districts","tag-school-funding-court-ruling","tag-spending-plan","tag-state-house","tag-tax-equity-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}