Lawmakers miss self-imposed deadline, still ironing out details on budget
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers will stay in the State Capitol longer than they originally expected.
Legislators published a calendar with an adjournment date of Friday months ago. Neither the House nor the Senate met the procedural requirements needed to pass a budget by Friday, so lawmakers will be working either over Memorial Day weekend or possibly into next week to get a deal done.
The state legislature has until the end of May to pass a budget, or the vote thresholds needed to pass a budget (or any other bill) increase for the rest of the calendar year.
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When Governor Pritzker proposed his version of the budget back in February, he balanced it using $1.1 million dollars in tax adjustments to get the numbers to line up. But some of the proposals have not gotten full support from Democrats, who hold a supermajority.
Representative LaShawn Ford (D-Chicago) said following a House Democratic Caucus Thursday that while neither chamber has filed a budget yet, he is confident that there will be an agreement before May ends.
“I think we definitely won’t be here like the Rauner years, or the Quinn years, or the Blagojevich years,” Ford said. “I think we will finish up before the 31st.”
This is a developing story.
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