HARRISBURG — Social service agencies and schools have started to feel a cash-flow crunch as the state’s budget stalemate enters its third month.

But most state lawmakers are still getting paid, although a handful are voluntarily declining their paychecks.

A Franklin & Marshall College poll last month found a majority of registered voters believe state lawmakers should not be paid during budget negotiations when the budget is late. That sentiment was consistent across party lines, expressed by 67 percent of Republicans polled, 64 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of independents, said Terry Madonna, director of the poll and professor of public affairs at the college.

Some legislators have voluntarily given up their salaries since July 1. The average salary of a state senator or representative is about $85,000.

Sen. Rob Teplitz, D-Dauphin, who is the sponsor of a bill that would suspend compensation for lawmakers during a budget impasse, is not accepting his salary and said he is borrowing funds from his bank in the meantime.

Teplitz’s bill would suspend compensation for the governor, lieutenant governor, cabinet officers and the General Assembly if a budget bill is not passed by June 30. His bill, which he also sponsored last session, hasn’t moved from the state government committee since it was introduced.

A spokesman for the Senate Republican caucus said the General Assembly passed a budget, but it was the governor’s choice to veto it.

State workers are on the job and being paid, which was not always the case in past years.

A 2009 court decision said state employees who work have to be paid.