PRINTER'S NO. 170

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 158 Session of 1979

        INTRODUCED BY COWELL, IRVIS, GALLAGHER, PISTELLA, BURNS, FISHER,
           MICHLOVIC, DAWIDA, ITKIN, MURPHY, GRABOWSKI, KNIGHT, NOVAK,
           AUSTIN, COHEN, MILLER, CESSAR, SEVENTY, McVERRY, REED,
           GIAMMARCO, COCHRAN, ZITTERMAN, RYAN, DeWEESE, ZWIKL, HARPER,
           KUKOVICH, STEWART, CHESS, RHODES, M. R. CLARK, DUMAS, STREET,
           WACHOB, BELOFF, JONES, GREENFIELD AND SWEET, FEBRUARY 6, 1979

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, FEBRUARY 7, 1979

                               A JOINT RESOLUTION

     1  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
     2     of Pennsylvania, further providing for the content of the
     3     general appropriation bill and for the vote required for
     4     certain appropriations.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby resolves as follows:
     7     Section 1.  The following amendment to the Constitution of
     8  the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with
     9  the provisions of Article XI thereof:
    10     That sections 11 and 30 of Article III be amended to read:
    11                            ARTICLE III
    12                            LEGISLATION
    13  § 11.  Appropriation bills.
    14     The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but
    15  appropriations for the executive, legislative and judicial
    16  departments of the Commonwealth, for the public debt [and], for
    17  public schools, for the State Land Grant University, for the

     1  State related universities and for the State related
     2  institutions of higher education. All other appropriations shall
     3  be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.
     4  § 30.  Charitable and educational appropriations.
     5     No appropriation shall be made to any charitable or
     6  educational institution not under the absolute control of the
     7  Commonwealth, other than normal schools established by law for
     8  the professional training of teachers for the public schools of
     9  the State, the State Land Grant University, the State related
    10  universities and the State related institutions of higher
    11  education, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members
    12  elected to each House.












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