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Budget Address
On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Governor Shapiro delivered his 2025-26 budget address, presenting his plan for the fiscal year.
Governor Shapiro’s 2025-26 Budget Address as Prepared for Delivery
- $1B tax relief for homeowners, average over $200 back into the pockets of homeowners
- $8.2B to support public schools
- Calls for a $15 minimum wage
- $40M for student teacher stipends
- $10M for first-time home buyers
- $50M for Housing Stock Restoration
- Over $90M for gun violence prevention
- $14.5M for 400+ new state troopers
- Over $23M to support primary health care practitioners with student loan payments
- $30M for firefighters
- $55M to help with the cost of childcare worker recruitment and retention grants
- $10M for a rate increase for early intervention providers
- $10M to support the 988 crisis hotline
- $10M for rural healthcare
- $20M for hospital patient safety
- $13M for ag innovation
- New Lightning Plan and EDGE tax credit to lower utility costs and make PA more energy efficient
- $292.5M for mass transit throughout PA
- Capping cyber charter tuition rate at $8K to save school districts $378M a year
2025-26 Budget Hearings
Budget Documents
2025-26 Proposed Budget
(Introduced by Governor Josh Shapiro, February 4, 2025)
2025-26 Governor’s Executive Budget (PDF)
2025-26 Proposed Budget Line-Item Appropriation (PDF)
2025-26 Proposed Budget Slide Presentation (PDF)
2025-26 Proposed Budget Legislation
Governor’s Proposed Budget 2025-26 – Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee (PDF)
Budget News
Senator Saval Celebrates a Budget Recognizing Housing as an Essential Need
Harrisburg, PA − February 4, 2025 − Celebrating the housing proposals in Governor Josh Shapiro’s 2025–2026 budget address, State Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia), who serves as Democratic Chair of the Senate’s Urban Affairs and Housing Committee and chairs the...
Budget Videos
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