IL is the only state without a budget agreement for this fiscal year, and is on the brink of starting its second.
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Republicans are pushing for a standalone K-12 school funding measure that gives more money to schools than they received previous year.
Governor Rauner and legislative leaders will meet behind closed doors once again after both sides said they made progress yesterday.
IL colleges and universities would receive about $1 billion under stopgap budget plans filed by state Senate Democrats and Republican leaders.
Durkin described it as “a very lengthy but I think a healthy discussion” and said he hoped an agreement can be reached Wednesday on a stopgap budget for state operations and a full year’s funding for elementary and secondary education.
Lang, a longtime champion of medical marijuana in the Legislature, said Monday he was just learning of the leadership change.
If that doesn’t happen, the state would begin a second straight fiscal year without a budget. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine). “They used their pensions as a credit card, and now they want the rest of the state to pay the bill, and it’s not right”. No school district loses money under the plan.
With the clock ticking, lawmakers are scheduled to be in Springfield Wednesday.
“The political war between (Gov. Bruce) Rauner and House Speaker Michael Madigan has been confounding and unconscionable”. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, and continued under Rauner, a Republican who for more than a year resisted expanding the program beyond the original 39 conditions and diseases listed in the law. “CPS has been financially mismanaged for years and years”, Rauner said.
Still, after the meeting Senate President John Cullerton said he’s “excited” they’re “this close” to a deal.
“A stopgap plan will only make the problem worse”, McSweeney said.
It’s also unclear whether Democrats will tie a stopgap budget to their education funding bills, which could curtail anything from happening.
Doesn’t include money for Chicago teacher pensions or an increase in state aid for CPS. But if lawmakers and the governor fail to approve a new education budget soon, schools will be at risk of closing or will have to use rainy- day funds to open. The governor maintained again Tuesday that CPS should receive the same amount of dollar funding as a year ago; that any more would be a bailout.
“We are in a critical time in IL with government services at risk of being shut down on July 1st without a stopgap budget”, Governor Rauner said.
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Authorizes spending for road and school construction, and provides money for local governments.
