Governor Quinn Announces "Doomsday" Budget
Says spending must be cut by 37% if no new revenues raised


Today Governor Quinn announced he will be forced to cut spending by 37% if the General Assembly does not pass any new revenue sources for Fiscal Year 2010.  According to Crain's the cuts would include:

 

• 14,300 public school teachers would be laid off, a $1.5-billion cut.
• 400,000 college students would lose scholarship aid in a $554-million reduction.
• 650,000 people would lose health care benefits in cuts totaling $1.2 billion.
• 271,000 seniors would not be taken care of in the wake of $368 million worth of reductions, cutting things like the state Department on Aging's Circuit Breaker program, and services to help seniors remain in their homes and fight elderly abuse.
• 6,000 prisoners would be let out of jail early.
• $769 million in human services cuts would mean 5,000 disabled people would lose home care services and 45,000 people would no longer get addiction treatment and prevention.
• Mass transit cuts of $549 million would eliminate all public funding for public transit and Amtrak.
• Local aid to state government would be cut $1 billion.
• Another $1 billion in cuts have yet to be determined.

In March the Governor proposed a budget that included raising the State's income tax from 3% to 4.5% to help close the $12 billion budget deficit. 

 

Read CTBA's analysis of the FY 2010 proposed budget here

View Resources from CTBA's 2009 fiscal symposium here

Senate and House Schedule 

The General Assembly has 12 days to finalize the FY 2010 budget and implement a much needed capital plan.  May 31 is the last day of regular session. 

View the Senate schedule here
View the House schedule here