Legislative leaders worked until 3:00 a.m. on a budget and when the sessions ended House Speaker Keith McCall (D-Carbon) saying an agreement was reached, but Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-Delaware) saying more details need to be worked out.
Sen. Pileggi said Senate Republican agreement to increased education spending, passing a natural gas production severance tax by October 1 and increasing RACP economic development borrowing limit by $800 million will only hold if Gov. Rendell agrees to do a budget on time.
The compromise calls for a $28 billion budget and assumes $850 million in federal Medicaid funding will be coming from Congress.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has scheduled an off the floor meeting for today to consider House Bill 2279 (D-Evans-D-Philadelphia) the General Fund budget bill.
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