Hoping to make this the first year since 2003 with an on-time budget, the House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved Rendell’s proposed spending plan months ahead of the July 1 deadline.

But that seemingly quick action doesn’t mean that enacting a budget for the next fiscal year will come easily.

The committee vote was along party lines, despite efforts to attract Republican votes after Gov. Rendell’s proposed sales-tax expansion and tax on gas drilling were jettisoned.

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