HARRISBURG - The State Senate beat the deadline by a day and adopted the House verion of the budget which restores funding for colleges and universities and provides extra money for public schools.

The Senate vote was 32 to 17.

Spending for 2012-13 tops $27.6 billion. That’s about 500 million more than what Gov. Tom Corbett proposed in February. It is also about $370 million over the current budget, which runs out at midnight tonight.

"Whatever our individual preferences might be, the principle of cost control on which this budget is built is a must in the current economic environment. It is what the majority of taxpayers demand, what the ongoing lack of a substantial rebound in state revenues dictates, and what looking down the road to rising obligations in the next budget warrants.

State Senator Lisa Baker (R-Monroe/Pike) gove the budget a very cautions endorsement: “In tough economic times, it is impossible to agree upon a state budget that will be widely popular. But with the changes in funding made in recent weeks, it has become a budget more practical and less ideological. In the long run, that better serves taxpayers, institutions, and communities."

State Sen. John Yudichak (D-Luzerne/Carbon/Monroe) voted against the budget.

“This budget, despite bipartisan restoration efforts, makes no gains on the billions of dollars in cuts made to education last year – meaning the tax bills and tuition bills will be higher for Pennsylvania taxpayers. By failing to adequately fund all levels of education, we are compromising our ability to grow an educated workforce and ultimately falling behind in the jobs race.”