{"id":158649,"date":"2025-07-14T21:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158649"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:00:17","slug":"statement-on-house-passage-of-hb-1330-a-general-appropriations-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158649","title":{"rendered":"Statement on House Passage of HB 1330, a General Appropriations Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/pennpolicy.org\/research_publication\/statement-on-house-passage-of-hb-1330-a-general-appropriations-bill\/\">Pennsylvania Policy Center<\/a> on July 14, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 14, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contact: Kirstin Snow, Communications Director, snow@pennpolicy.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pennpolicy.org\/research_publication\/statement-on-house-passage-of-hb-1330-a-general-appropriations-bill\/\"><strong>Statement<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0on House Budget Vote \u2013 Marc Stier, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Policy Center<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania House today passed a general appropriations bill, HB 1330. While it was a Democratic proposal, it received a few Republican votes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the state budget two weeks late, this is a welcome sign. Also welcome is that the budget largely embraces Governor Shapiro\u2019s education funding proposals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the vote is welcome, in two respects, it is not a final product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, it is, as Democrats and Republicans in both House and Senate rightly point out, not a final product. With a divided legislature, Senate Republicans must reach an agreement with House Democrats and the governor to enact a general appropriations bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, a final budget that truly meets the needs of Pennsylvanians must include agreements on other issues that must be enacted alongside the appropriations bill. These include cyber charter reform, funding for public transit, an increase in the minimum wage, and new revenues from the legalization of adult-use recreational cannabis and a tax on skill-based video gambling. The House has passed proposals on the first four items that are also waiting for Senate action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hope that the House action today, which reduced Governor Shapiro\u2019s funding proposal by $1 billion, encourages further compromise that leads to bi-partisan agreement on a general appropriations bill as well as on transit, cyber charter reform and the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania Policy Center will release a more detailed analysis of the budget negotiations as the process moves forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on July 14, 2025. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2025 Contact: Kirstin Snow, Communications Director, snow@pennpolicy.org Statement\u00a0on House Budget Vote \u2013 Marc Stier, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Policy Center The Pennsylvania House today passed a general appropriations bill, HB 1330. While it was a Democratic proposal, it received a few Republican votes.&nbsp; With the state budget two weeks late, this is a welcome sign. Also welcome is that the budget largely embraces Governor Shapiro\u2019s education funding proposals.&nbsp; While the vote is welcome, in two respects, it is not a final product. First, it is, as Democrats and Republicans in both House and Senate rightly point out, not a final product. With a divided legislature, Senate Republicans must reach an agreement with House Democrats and the governor to enact a general appropriations bill.&nbsp; Second, a final budget that truly meets the needs of Pennsylvanians must include\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158649\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":158648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[291,217,288,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","category-my-work","category-penn-policy-center","category-statement-penn-policy-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-FgR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PACapitolandFountain1200x628.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158710,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158649\/revisions\/158710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}