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| Senate panel advances bill to fund state prisons to avert risk of closure |
| By pennlive.com- Jan Murphy |
| Published: 01/20/2016 |
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Hoping to eliminate any possibility of state prisons closing due to lack of funding, the state Senate has advanced a bill to provide funding to ensure these correctional facilities remain operational through the end of June. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted in a near-party line vote of 18-8 to approve a $939.4 million supplemental appropriation for the Department of Corrections. This would be in addition to the nearly $1.3 billion for the corrections department included in the $23.4 billion general fund budget that Gov. Tom Wolf enacted on Dec. 29 mostly to prevent schools from closing. Wolf used his line-item veto authority to eliminate a half-year's funding for the corrections department to gain leverage with lawmakers in his quest for a larger investment in education than that budget plan included. Read More. |
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