Pennsylvania’s civil legal services agencies are welcoming a tentative indication that more than $3 million in state funds for public interest legal organizations won’t be zeroed out in this year’s budget.
Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled state Senate passed a budget proposal that would eliminate $3.172 million in general funds for legal services, or just under 10 percent of the funding that goes to Pennsylvania’s legal services a year. The budget proposed by Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a Democrat, and passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives preserved the same level of funding that legal services received in last year’s budget.
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