HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in control of Pennsylvania’s Legislature scrambled Tuesday to finish writing a host of budget- and education-related bills to get them to fellow Republican Gov. Tom Corbett before the new fiscal year starts Sunday.

That meant that significant changes in state policy — even the particulars of a $1.7 billion, 25-year tax break being sought by Corbett for a would-be petrochemical industry — were still under wraps, being worked on behind closed doors by Republicans just four days before they hope to make the provisions law.

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