Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Happy Monday: We have a budget On Friday, lawmakers passed a $39.8 billion general fund spending plan. Factoring in one-time spending from federal stimulus funds, the general fund spending plan is…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! State budget votes could begin today Capitolwire reports (paywall) that the proposed FY 2021-22 state budget could begin moving through the General Assembly today, with final votes potentially coming…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! House votes to ban vaccine passports Yesterday, the House voted on party lines to ban state and local governments, including school districts, as well as colleges and universities from…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! House passes election reform bill By a 110-91 vote, the House last evening passed the Voting Rights Protection Act, sponsored by Rep. Seth Grove (York County). Among other things,…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Outmigration costs PA big $$ Pennsylvania lost $1.7 billion in 2019 due to folks moving out of the state, according to a new analysis reported by the Center Square.…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Grove takes election reform to Wolf press conference Yesterday, Gov. Wolf held another press conference denouncing imagined voter disenfranchisement, even as he had thus far refused to come to…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Senate passes cocktails-to-go bill, but amendment draws ire By a close 26-24 vote, the Senate yesterday passed a cocktails-to-go bill that includes an amendment to "allow increasingly popular liquor-based…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Senate committees advance school choice bill Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Education Committee advanced Senate Bill 1, the Excellence in Education for All Act, sponsored by…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! House committee to consider election reform package today This morning at 8:00 a.m., the House State Government Committee will take up the election reform package introduced last week by…
Get News & Brews in your inbox each day: Subscribe here! Some lawmakers want constitutional amendment requiring voter ID As Gov. Wolf has promised to veto any election reform requiring voter ID, Sen. Judy Ward (Blair, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, and Huntingdon…