SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A stopgap Illinois budget padded with guaranteed state-employee paychecks for July has won House approval but the change delays its delivery to the governor.
The $2.3 billion plan that Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner opposes was endorsed 71-19 Thursday. It must return to the Senate for concurrence because of the pay provision. The previous version included just emergency expenses.
Rauner and Democratic lawmakers are at odds over a yearlong plan. The fiscal year began July 1 without state authority to pay its bills.
The pay provision responded to House Republicans’ effort to create a state law guaranteeing that state employees get paid regardless of whether there’s spending authority — a move that Democrats mocked as a bank-breaker and buried in parliamentary procedures.
