Leaders of Pennsylvania’s civil legal services agencies, already reeling from a fall-off in funding based on IOLTA accounts, are now fearful that more than $3 million in state funds appropriated this fiscal year for public interest legal organizations will be eliminated in next year’s budget.
In a proposed state budget passed in the Republican-controlled state Senate, $3.172 million in general funds for legal services was zeroed out. The budget proposed by Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a Democrat, and introduced into the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives would preserve the current funding level.
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