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House Appropriations chair outlines 2025-26 budget framework and revenue proposals
Summary
Majority Appropriations Chair Jordan Harris and committee staff presented a $133.7 billion budget framework for fiscal 2025-26, outlining proposed revenue measures — a minimum-wage increase, adult-use cannabis legalization and skill-game taxation — and priority investments in health, education, transit and workforce programs.
Representative Jordan Harris, chair of the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee, and the committee’s executive director Courtney Richardson laid out the broad contours of the Commonwealth’s fiscal 2025-26 plan at a Southeast Delegation briefing in Norristown on April 28, 2025. Richardson said the total budget under consideration is $133,726,000,000, with a general fund of about $51.5 billion and federal funds accounting for roughly 40 percent of the total.
The committee framed the budget as a package of bills rather than a single document, with the General Appropriations Act (GAA) carrying line-item spending, the fiscal code explaining how line items operate, the school code setting education formulas, and the tax code covering any changes to taxes. “The GAA is the General Appropriations Act. That…
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