Governor JB Pritzker is expected to sign the 2025 state budget on Wednesday.
JERRY NOWICKI, Capitol News IllinoisLegislators passed the $53 billion spending plan late last week after a near-derailment.Legislators passed the $53 billion spending plan late last week after a near-derailment.
"From expectant mothers and their newborn babies to people with disabilities to veterans to seniors who need our care, we're keeping our promises to all Illinoisans and the most vulnerable among us," Pritzker said. The budget includes $182 million to provide shelter, health care and other services for recently arrived migrants, many of whom have been bused to the state from Texas. And it includes $440 million from the GRF for two programs providing state-funded Medicaid-like benefits to noncitizens, with $189 million from other state funds as well.New revenues
To appease retailers, lawmakers included a prohibition on financial institutions and credit card companies charging fees on the sales tax and gratuity portion of electronic transactions beginning July 1, 2025. The final roughly 80 pages of the budget bill contain a long list of projects, most of them ranging from $50,000 to $1 million sums to various specifically named businesses, local governments and other entities.Despite the diversion of money from the Road Fund, the budget includes $3.5 billion for infrastructure - about $500 million more than what Pritzker had outlined in his February budget proposal.
- The annual $350 million increase in K-12 education funding, called for by a 2017 law that overhauled Illinois' school funding formula.- A $10 million increase to Monetary Award Program grants for lower-income college students.
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