Legislative leaders in Harrisburg say they don’t expect a repeat of last year’s tortured budget process, when an impasse dragged on for 135 days and delayed billions of dollars in state funding to schools, counties and nonprofits.
“I believe there is a shared desire to complete this on time or as close to on time as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, said in a phone interview with TribLive.
“I think we’ll have something done by the end of June or the first week of July,” Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, added during a recent telephone town hall with hundreds of constituents…