I will soon be introducing legislation to further encourage timely completion of Pennsylvania’s budget process, by suspending the automatic pay raises/cost of living adjustments for legislators, the Governor, and Lt. Governor in any year in which the General Appropriations Act is not enacted by July 1.
 
Our most important job as legislators and public officials in Pennsylvania is to complete the state’s budgeting process in a responsible and timely manner. Lengthy delays in budget negotiations have become all too common in recent years, with timely budgets few and far between over the past two decades.
 
This legislation would provide both short and long-term incentives to all parties in the budget negotiations to meet our constitutional budget deadline and to avoid the harms caused by late budgets to public entities across Pennsylvania. 

Please join me in sponsoring this important legislation!