Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg on Tuesday.

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf's budget proposal released Tuesday includes nearly $500 million in supplemental cash for the current fiscal year, as well as authorization for another $1.9 billion in new spending, or nearly 6 percent more.

In his budget address to a joint session of the Republican-controlled Legislature, Wolf said the most significant element of the $34.1 billion budget plan, his first since winning a second term, is its efforts to help Pennsylvanians compete in a changing economy by bolstering skills and education.

“Our challenge demands an all-hands-on-deck approach,” the Democrat told lawmakers in the 28-minute address. “And this budget proposal itself asks Pennsylvanians to come together — business leaders, educators, students, workers — to address the challenge of renewing our prosperity for another generation.”

The proposal would not increase the state's taxes on income and sales. But Wolf last week laid out a parallel plan to impose a severance tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas production to finance borrowing for a wide range of projects, from economic development to environmental cleanups.

Wolf's administration is counting on tax collections to rise by a solid 3 percent, plus hundreds of millions of dollars from surplus money already appropriated, higher assessments on Medicaid providers, and a fee on municipalities that rely only on state troopers to provide police coverage.

Most of the new money in Wolf's budget would go to public schools, including $200 million for general operations and instruction. About $13 million of that would finance a boost in the state's decades-old minimum wage for teachers from $18,500 to $45,000, a provision officials said would mostly benefit rural school districts. Schools would get $45 million for school safety, while the state would borrow more money for school construction projects.

To try to reverse the loss of younger people moving to other states, Wolf is seeking $8 million to give community college students who remain in Pennsylvania a $2,500 grant to offset tuition or pay down student debt. To enhance skills training, Wolf is seeking $12 million in grants for employers to train workers and $10 million more to encourage apprenticeships.

Replacing voting machines ahead of 2020's presidential election has been a priority for Wolf, and he is proposing $15 million a year for five years — $75 million total — to help counties pay for machines that leave a voter-marked paper trail.

For the state's agricultural sector, Wolf's plan includes millions of dollars to aid business development, increase processing capacity, draw more workers and market organic products.