The Pennsylvania Senate approved Tuesday both a budget bill and another to fund a transit plan.
Senate Republicans want to send $292.5 million dollars to transit agencies this year and another $300 million next year by dipping into a transit trust fund.
$40 million would go to Pittsburgh Regional Transit to avoid service cuts and fare hikes, but the bill clashes with legislation passed Monday by House Democrats.
That bill calls for the same amount of transit funding but would increase the share of sales and use tax revenues to do it.
It is unlikely the GOP-controlled Senate will approve that proposal and House Democrats quickly rejected the Republican bill.
The budget bill passed yesterday calls for $47.6 billion in spending, about $3 billion less than a spending bill passed by the House.
An impasse remains unresolved, the state is without a budget and lawmakers don't return to Harrisburg until next month.