CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Illinois Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a $2.26 billion, one-month budget that Governor Bruce Rauner has repeatedly said he will reject.
The Democratic-controlled chamber voted 39-0 to send the measure to the Republican governor, with 15 members voting "present." The Senate had to take up the bill a second time after the Democratic-controlled House last week amended it to add a provision ensuring state workers would be paid in full and on time during July.
An impasse between the governor and Democratic lawmakers has left Illinois without a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1. Democrats have been holding out for spending cuts and new revenue, while Rauner wants lawmakers to adopt controversial reforms, including legislative term limits and a local property tax freeze, before he will entertain new revenue.
Senate Democrats also overrode Rauner's vetoes of some of the full-year fiscal 2016 budget bills that Democrats passed in May. The governor contended the $36 billion spending plan was short $4 billion in revenue.
The fate of the veto overrides was uncertain in the House, where all 71 Democrats would have to vote to override, but not every Democrat originally voted for all of the full-year budget bills.
Meanwhile, state workers owed paychecks on Wednesday received them, according to the Illinois Comptroller's office. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the state supreme court on Monday to decide on the constitutionality of paying workers in the absence of an enacted budget.