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Illinois lawmakers pass bills to unblock state's budget impasse
Source: Reuters
World | Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:13pm EDT
Illinois lawmakers pass bills to unblock state's budget impasse
CHICAGO | BY DAVE MCKINNEY AND KAREN PIEROG
Illinois lawmakers broke a historic year-long budget impasse on Thursday, approving legislation to complete the current fiscal year, fund fiscal 2017 through December, and ensure schools will open in the fall.
A political stalemate between Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the legislature had left Illinois as the only U.S. state without a full budget for fiscal 2016, which ends at midnight.
The nation's fifth-largest state has limped through the year, relying on court-ordered spending and ongoing and stopgap appropriations to operate in the wake of the impasse. Illinois is the only state in the past 80 years to go an entire year without a full operating budget.
Rauner signed into law the bills, which will fund state government through the politically crucial election on Nov. 8.
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Illinois lawmakers pass bills to unblock state's budget impasse
CHICAGO | BY DAVE MCKINNEY AND KAREN PIEROG
Illinois lawmakers broke a historic year-long budget impasse on Thursday, approving legislation to complete the current fiscal year, fund fiscal 2017 through December, and ensure schools will open in the fall.
A political stalemate between Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the legislature had left Illinois as the only U.S. state without a full budget for fiscal 2016, which ends at midnight.
The nation's fifth-largest state has limped through the year, relying on court-ordered spending and ongoing and stopgap appropriations to operate in the wake of the impasse. Illinois is the only state in the past 80 years to go an entire year without a full operating budget.
Rauner signed into law the bills, which will fund state government through the politically crucial election on Nov. 8.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-illinois-budget-idUSKCN0ZG16N
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