Pennsylvania Privatization Remains Stalled As Governor Signs Budget Bill

Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett signed a $29 billion annual budget over the weekend, but failed to receive the wine and spirits privatization legislation for which he’d set a June 30 deadline.

While Pennsylvania’s house of representatives passed a full privatization measure earlier this year, the senate is still working on its own, less dramatic set of reforms, which currently leans toward expanding access to wine and spirits beyond state-owned retail shops, but not the immediate sell-off of those shops as specified by the house bill.

Despite the delay, Corbett said he’d keep pressing for privatization over the course of the legislative term running to the end of 2014.

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