HARRISBURG, Pa. - Gov. Tom Wolf will sign legislation approved Friday by lawmakers that carries over $900 million in pandemic-driven aid for hard-hit hospitality businesses, private schools and people struggling to pay rent or utility bills.Both chambers passed the bill unanimously Friday and Wolf's office said he will sign it.
In addition to distributing money, the bill carries a provision designed to clear up any uncertainty over whether federal pandemic aid, including Paycheck Protection Program loans and direct federal payments to taxpayers, are taxable as income in Pennsylvania.
It is not, under the bill.Most of the $912 million being allocated in the bill is federal aid approved by Congress in December.Some of it, $145 million, is.