A stopgap Illinois budget padded with guaranteed state-employee paychecks for July has won House approval, but the change delays its delivery to the governor.
The $2.3 billion plan that Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner opposes was endorsed 71-19 Thursday.
The previous version included just emergency expenses, so the current bill must return to the Senate for concurrence because of the pay provision. The Senate is not scheduled to convene until 4 p.m. next Tuesday.
Rauner and Democratic lawmakers are at odds over a yearlong plan. The fiscal year began July 1 without state authority to pay its bills.
The pay provision responded to House Republicans' effort to create a state law guaranteeing that state employees get paid regardless of whether there's spending authority _ a move that Democrats mocked as a bank-breaker and buried in parliamentary procedures.
