Will State House Vote on Worker's Raises?

Maybe they need a session that ends at 2 am or wait to do it until they cut Medicaid by $40 million.... After all that was the scenario last July 7th when the state legislature took money from the poorest of the state's poor and stuffed it into their own pockets. Because the Senate was unable to pass the same bill that the House had approved the minimum wage bill is back in the House.

Though this bill is bad for small businesses since it penalizes their efforts to hire workers under a provision that allows them to pay a sub-minimum wage (who in their right mind would work for that when they can go down the street and get the minimum?) Democrats say they will settle for the legislation because workers are in such desperate need for assistance. It has been 9 years since they received a raise in wages. The Morning Call quotes Bill DeWeese:

But the Democrats will not insist on a minimum-wage vote as a condition for passing the state budget for the fiscal year that begins Saturday, DeWeese said. The Senate bill's fate in the House was unclear Monday. Steve Miskin, spokesman for House Majority Leader Sam Smith, said GOP leaders had not discussed the measure and would have to evaluate it first.

Does this legislature want to face the voters with the albatross of also not having passed this?