Republican Stopgap Budget Worth About $11 Billion Out Of $30.2 Billion State Budget

The Senate Appropriations Committee will meet Wednesday off the floor to consider Senate Bill 1000 General Fund Stopgap Budget Bill and Senate Bill 1001 Fiscal Code Stopgap Bill.  

The stopgap budget is about $11 billion of the $30.2 billion General Fund budget passed by Republicans in June and included in the so-called "agreed-to" budget bill-- House Bill 1192.  It will also allow the pass-through of federal funding to state agencies and organizations reliant on that money.  

The new Fiscal Code bill has project funding and other special provisions legislators put in the original Fiscal Code bill-- Senate Bill 655-- vetoed by Gov. Wolf in June.

So far, the new Fiscal Code bill does not have the provisions included in the June bill to kill DEP regulations covering conventional oil and gas drilling or language further hobbling Pennsylvania's efforts to comply with EPA's Clean Power Climate Plan.

It does have language directing DCNR to use $750,000 in existing funds to finance the operation of Washington Crossing State Park and for several water and sewer projects in DEP's budget.

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