It's a done deal. The budget is signed, sealed and delivered.

[femmocrat]

Governor Tom Corbett signs budget with minutes to spare
Published: Sunday, July 01, 2012, 12:31 AM Updated: Sunday, July 01, 2012, 1:48 AM
JAN MURPHY, The Patriot-News By JAN MURPHY, The Patriot-News

Gov. Tom Corbett avoided the embarrassment of a late state budget, but he made it close.
Like last year, he only had minutes to spare before the clock struck midnight on the last day of the fiscal year when he signed it in the Capitol Rotunda.

The nearly $27.7 billion budget includes no tax increase or new taxes. It ensures that no public school or public university receives less money than last year.

The 2012-13 budget cuts business taxes by $288 million and doubles funding for tax credits for businesses supporting education.*

At the same time, it cuts spending on child care programs for low-income working families, eliminates cash assistance for a slice of the state's welfare recipients, cuts funding for county-provided human services and cuts funding for environmental protection.*

Link: http://blog.pennlive.com/midstate_impact/print.html?entry=/2012/07/governor_tom_corbett_signs_bud.html

**emphasis added by poster.

The big tax break for the cracker plant in Beaver Co. passed, as did another $75 million cut for businesses who offer "scholarships" for students to attend private schools. A tougher teacher evaluation system will be implemented, based 50% on student test scores. Funding for schools and colleges remains at last year's levels. According to the right wing Tribune-Review, 14 democrats voted for it.

Link: http://triblive.com/news/2133876-74/schools-budget-corbett-bill-public-million-cameras-fiscal-legislation-signed

And there you have it....

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Aren't the priorities of the right amazing? Cut business taxes and child programs.

[femmocrat]

2. Yes... no added money to the schools, but big tax breaks for corporations who...

want to fund private (for-profit) schools. At public expense, of course. After the huge cuts to schools last year, so many districts are really struggling.

[malthaussen]

3. When do they introduce the child-slavery in the fracking fields bill?

Isn't it amazing what a dedicated Legislative and Administrative branch can pull off?

-- Mal

[drm604]

4. My state

[happyslug]

5. The actual Budget

http://www.budget.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/current_and_proposed_commonwealth_budgets/4566

Here are some of the larger cuts:

Mental Health Services -7.7%

326 Medical Assistance - Outpatient -44.2%
327 Medical Assistance - Inpatient -37.2%

Basic Ed Formula Enhancements -82.1%

169 School Nutrition Incentive Program -100.0%
170 School Employees' Social Security -1.9%

General Government Operations -1.0%
203 Environmental Program Management -11.0%
204 Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Source Abatement -3.0%
205 Environmental Protection Operations -4.6%
206 Black Fly Control and Research -3.0%
207 West Nile Virus Control -3.0%
208 Sewage Facilities Planning Grants -100.0%
209 Sewage Facilities Enforcement Grants -100.0%
210 Delaware River Master -9.5%
211 Ohio River Basin Commission -100.0%
212 Susquehanna River Basin Commission -10.0%
213 Interstate Commission on the Potomac River -4.2%
214 Delaware River Basin Commission -5.0%
215 Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission -4.9%
216 Chesapeake Bay Commission -5.0%
217 Transfer to Conservation District Fund -1.0%
218 Interstate Mining Commission -6.3%
219 Summer 2011 Storm - Stream Cleaning -100.0%
220 Environmental Protection Total -8.7%

250 Transition to Dept. of Drug and Alcohol Programs -100.0%
251 Assistance to Drug and Alcohol Programs -100.0%
Health Total -15.3%

274 Labor and Industry
275 General Government Operations -3.7%
276 Occupational and Industrial Safety (portion from row 277) 2.3%
277 PENNSAFE (to row 276 and Worker's Comp Admin Fund) -100.0%
278 Occupational Disease Payments -5.7%
279 Transfer to Vocational Rehabilitation Fund 0.0%
280 Supported Employment -5.0%
281 Centers for Independent Living -5.0%
282 Workers' Compensation Payments -11.3%

284 Assistive Technology -100.0%

323 Cash Grants -71.5%

326 Medical Assistance - Outpatient -44.2%
327 Medical Assistance - Inpatient -37.2%
Public Welfare Total $10,560,548 0.2% (Think about it, a .2% INCREASE during a recession with more and more people applying for Welfare)

Housing Finance Agency
464 PHFA - Homeowners Emergency Mortgage Assistance -100.0%
465 Housing Finance Agency Total -100.0%

[femmocrat]

6. Thanks for the great information, happyslug!

But there is a bottomless kettle of money for frackers.

[livetohike]

7. Thanks for the info

They are decimating anything having to do with environmental protection/enforcement in preparation to pollute our waterways . I really cannot take this anymore. I want my state back.