HARRISBURG — A new $27.3 billion state budget plan written by House Republicans would ease some of the spending cuts on schools and universities proposed by Gov. Tom Corbett, but it is worrisome to county officials, hospital advocates and others whose organizations serve children, the poor or the abused.

The House GOP budget, slated for a vote in the chamber later this month, would reduce the amount of money for hospitals that treat the poor, families seeking subsidized child care, shelters that aid women and the homeless and counseling services.

“Do you want to put the pain on kids in higher education or kids in the county youth system?” questioned Don Cunningham, a Democrat who is the elected chief executive of Lehigh County. “The choices are not good either way.”

With counties reliant on property taxes for revenue, many are going to be unable to make up cuts in state aid, resulting in longer waiting lists for people who need help, Cunningham said Friday.

Both Corbett and his fellow Republicans who control the House of Representatives are advocating a $27.3 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Both plans would rely largely on spending cuts to help balance a projected multibillion-dollar deficit, and neither would raise taxes or spend down a surplus of about a half-billion dollars in tax collections reported at the end of April.

A budget also will need approval from the Senate, where leaders of the Republican majority have advocated using at least some of the surplus to wipe out cuts.

In his plan, Corbett had left funding largely intact for much of the state’s social safety net, although some of his changes drew complaints. The Republican governor had slashed $150 million for hospitals — meaning the loss of another $183 million in federal matching funds — and eliminated a $23.5 million pot of money that allowed counties some flexibility in addressing safety-net needs.

Lawmakers had strongly criticized Corbett’s cuts of more than $1.6 billion for public schools and 18 state-supported universities, and the House GOP this week proposed restoring about $600 million of that. The House GOP also would return some of the flexible safety-net money to counties, as well as some money in supplemental payments for specialty hospital services, such as trauma units.

But the House GOP plan balanced that by cutting about $470 million from the budget of the Department of Public Welfare, which administers about $11 billion for a wide range of social and human services.