East Central Reporter

Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) supports a budget proposal from Republican lawmakers and Gov. Bruce Rauner’s call for a special session to end the state’s budget impasse, according to a recent press release.

“Yesterday, a package of legislation was filed that includes cuts, reforms, starts to pay off our billion plus-dollar backlog of bills, actually balances the state budget, and fundamentally reforms our inequitable K-12 system – and is great for downstate schools because it combines the best parts of the two competing funding reform proposals into a single reform,” Rose said in a statement. “It is also a package that Governor Rauner says he will sign into law.”

The Republican proposal serves as a counter to an earlier proposal from the Senate Democrats, according to the Washington Post. State lawmakers are in a special session reach a compromise. It can run through June 30, the end of the current fiscal year, if necessary.

“Clearly, sitting at home is doing nobody any good as our state hurtles towards junk bond status on July 1st,” Rose said in his statement. “Senate Republicans have compromised. House Republicans have compromised. The Senate Democrats have compromised. Governor Rauner has compromised. All eyes are now on House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago).”