Pennsylvania is currently the only state in the nation without a budget for the 2025-26 Fiscal Year. During this impasse, school districts, counties, and municipal governments are being forced to make difficult decisions to continue performing their essential functions, such as increasing taxes, spending from savings accounts, taking out loans, and making critical service and staff cuts. These communities will continue to feel the financial impacts of this budget impasse even after the budget is enacted and implemented.
 
To address this issue, my legislation would require the Commonwealth to pay interest and cost reimbursements to political subdivisions that were forced to incur loan debt as a result of the budget impasse. This solution would ensure that critical services like education, healthcare, transportation, and emergency services continue while preventing further financial burdens for political subdivisions and taxpayers.
 
Citizens should not have to suffer because of the General Assembly’s failure to enact a timely budget. Please join me in relieving some of the financial burdens that political subdivisions and taxpayers are facing during this impasse.