PRINTER'S NO. 2436
No. 1870 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, LaGROTTA, BIANCUCCI, WASHINGTON, CAWLEY, SOLOBAY, BUXTON, GEORGE, DeWEESE, KENNEY, CORRIGAN, COY, READSHAW, CURRY, BEBKO-JONES, LAUGHLIN, BELFANTI, ROONEY, BROWNE, BISHOP, GRUCELA, HERSHEY, MANDERINO, SCRIMENTI, LEACH, PISTELLA, E. Z. TAYLOR, McCALL, HERMAN, DALEY, YOUNGBLOOD, WALKO, WHEATLEY, BELARDI, GOODMAN, SURRA, HORSEY, HARHAI, JOSEPHS, THOMAS, HESS, J. TAYLOR, TIGUE, SHANER, FREEMAN, PALLONE AND TANGRETTI, JULY 16, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, JULY 16, 2003
AN ACT 1 Amending the act of March 20, 2003 (P.L. , No.1A), entitled 2 "An act to provide from the General Fund for the expenses of 3 the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Departments of the 4 Commonwealth, the public debt and for the public schools for 5 the fiscal year July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004, for certain 6 institutions and organizations, and for the payment of bills 7 incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year 8 ending June 30, 2003; to provide appropriations from the 9 State Lottery Fund, the Energy Conservation and Assistance 10 Fund, the Hazardous Material Response Fund, The State Stores 11 Fund, the Milk Marketing Fund, the Home Investment Trust 12 Fund, the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund, the 13 Tuition Payment Fund, the Banking Department Fund, the 14 Firearm Records Check Fund, the Ben Franklin Technology 15 Development Authority Fund and the Tobacco Settlement Fund to 16 the Executive Department; to provide appropriations from the 17 Judicial Computer System Augmentation Account to the Judicial 18 Department for the fiscal year July 1, 2003, to June 30, 19 2004; to provide appropriations from the Motor License Fund 20 for the fiscal year July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004, for the 21 proper operation of the several departments of the 22 Commonwealth and the Pennsylvania State Police authorized to 23 spend Motor License Fund moneys; to provide for the 24 appropriation of Federal funds to the Executive Department of 25 the Commonwealth and for the establishment of restricted 26 receipt accounts for the fiscal year July 1, 2003, to June 27 30, 2004, and for the payment of bills remaining unpaid at 28 the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003; to provide
1 for the additional appropriation of Federal and State funds 2 from the General Fund, for the Executive Department of the 3 Commonwealth for the fiscal year July 1, 2002, to June 30, 4 2003, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining 5 unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002; 6 and making a repeal," adding State appropriations to the 7 Department of Health. 8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 9 hereby enacts as follows: 10 Section 1. Section 215 of the act of March 20, 2003 (P.L. 11 , No.1A), known as the General Appropriation Act of 2003, is 12 amended to read: 13 Section 215. Department of 14 Health.--The following amounts are 15 appropriated to the Department of 16 Health: Federal State 17 For general government operations 18 of the Department of Health. 19 State appropriation........ 27,271,000 20 The following Federal amounts are 21 appropriated to supplement the sum 22 appropriated for general government 23 operations: 24 (1) "WIC - Administration and 25 Operation." 26 Federal appropriation...... 12,143,000 27 (2) "Health Assessment." 28 Federal appropriation...... 494,000 29 (3) "PHHSBG - Administration and 30 Operation." 31 Federal appropriation...... 3,167,000 32 (4) "SABG - Administration and 33 Operation." 20030H1870B2436 - 2 -
1 Federal appropriation...... 6,254,000 2 (5) "MCHSBG - Administration and 3 Operation." 4 Federal appropriation...... 16,549,000 5 (6) "Adult Blood Lead 6 Epidemiology." 7 Federal appropriation...... 43,000 8 (7) "Pediatric Prehospital 9 Emergency Care." 10 Federal appropriation...... 231,000 11 (8) "TB - Administration and 12 Operation." 13 Federal appropriation...... 699,000 14 (9) "Lead - Administration and 15 Operation." 16 Federal appropriation...... 1,404,000 17 (10) "AIDS Health Education 18 Administration and Operation." 19 Federal appropriation...... 3,769,000 20 (11) "Community Migrant Health." 21 Federal appropriation...... 319,000 22 (12) "HIV/AIDS Surveillance." 23 Federal appropriation...... 1,233,000 24 (13) "HIV Care Administration and 25 Operation." 26 Federal appropriation...... 1,038,000 27 (14) "Crash Outcomes Data 28 Evaluation." 29 Federal appropriation...... 190,000 30 (15) "State Incentive Grant - 20030H1870B2436 - 3 -
1 Administration and Operation." 2 Federal appropriation...... 572,000 3 (16) "Rural Access to Emergency 4 Devices." 5 Federal appropriation...... 880,000 6 (17) "Cancer Prevention and 7 Control." 8 Federal appropriation...... 5,569,000 9 (18) "Environmental Public Health 10 Tracking." 11 Federal appropriation...... 842,000 12 [For the Organ Donation Awareness 13 Program. 14 State appropriation........ 109,000 15 For Diabetes Programs. 16 State appropriation........ 426,000] 17 For the Organ Donation Awareness 18 Program. 19 State appropriation........ 114,000 20 For Diabetes Programs. 21 State appropriation........ 443,000 22 The following Federal amounts are 23 appropriated to supplement the sum 24 appropriated for diabetes programs: 25 (1) "Diabetes Control." 26 Federal appropriation...... 1,000,000 27 For Quality Assurance. 28 State appropriation........ 15,367,000 29 The following Federal amounts are 30 appropriated to supplement the sum 20030H1870B2436 - 4 -
1 appropriated for the Quality Assurance 2 Program: 3 (1) "Medicare - Health Service 4 Agency Certification." 5 Federal appropriation...... 9,913,000 6 (2) "Medicaid Certification." 7 Federal appropriation...... 5,573,000 8 For Vital Statistics. 9 State appropriation........ 6,469,000 10 The following Federal amounts are 11 appropriated to supplement the sum 12 appropriated for vital statistics: 13 (1) "Cooperative Health 14 Statistics." 15 Federal appropriation...... 1,418,000 16 (2) "Health Statistics." 17 Federal appropriation...... 292,000 18 (3) "Traumatic Brain Injury." 19 Federal appropriation...... 200,000 20 For the State Laboratory. 21 State appropriation........ 4,202,000 22 The following Federal amounts are 23 appropriated to supplement the sum 24 appropriated for the State Laboratory: 25 (1) "Clinical Laboratory 26 Improvement." 27 Federal appropriation...... 748,000 28 (2) "Epidemiology and Laboratory 29 Surveillance and Response." 30 Federal appropriation...... 1,482,000 20030H1870B2436 - 5 -
1 (3) "Environmental Biomonitoring." 2 Federal appropriation...... 368,000 3 For the State health care centers. 4 State appropriation........ 21,290,000 5 The following Federal amounts are 6 appropriated to supplement the sum 7 appropriated for the State health care 8 centers: 9 (1) "Disease Control Immunization 10 Program - Project Grants." 11 Federal appropriation...... 9,280,000 12 (2) "PHHSBG - Block Program 13 Services." 14 Federal appropriation...... 3,679,000 15 (3) "Preventive Health Special 16 Projects." 17 Federal appropriation...... 2,598,000 18 (4) "Lake Erie Beach Monitoring." 19 Federal appropriation...... 152,000 20 For sexually transmitted disease 21 screening and treatment. 22 [State appropriation....... 2,000,000] 23 State appropriation........ 2,310,000 24 The following Federal amounts are 25 appropriated to supplement the sum 26 appropriated for sexually transmitted 27 disease screening and testing: 28 (1) "Survey and Follow-up - 29 Sexually Transmitted Diseases." 30 Federal appropriation...... 3,607,000 20030H1870B2436 - 6 -
1 For screening of newborns. 2 State appropriation........ 4,000,000 3 For the primary health care 4 practitioner program. 5 State appropriation........ 4,630,000 6 The following Federal amounts are 7 appropriated to supplement the sum 8 appropriated for the primary health 9 care practitioner program: 10 (1) "Loan Repayment Program." 11 Federal appropriation...... 312,000 12 (2) "Rural Hospital Flexibility 13 Program." 14 Federal appropriation...... 523,000 15 [For cancer control programs. 16 State appropriation........ 2,085,000 17 For AIDS Programs. 18 State appropriation........ 6,159,000] 19 For cancer control programs. 20 State appropriations....... 3,595,000 21 For AIDS Programs. 22 State appropriations....... 7,159,000 23 The following Federal amounts are 24 appropriated to supplement the sum 25 appropriated for AIDS programs: 26 (1) "AIDS Health Education." 27 Federal appropriation...... 2,020,000 28 (2) "HIV Care." 29 Federal appropriation...... 13,607,000 30 (3) "Housing Opportunities for 20030H1870B2436 - 7 -
1 People with AIDS." 2 Federal appropriation...... 1,655,000 3 For regional cancer institutes. 4 [State appropriation....... 899,000] 5 State appropriations....... 2,000,000 6 For reimbursement to school 7 districts on account of health 8 services. 9 State appropriation........ 38,700,000 10 For maintenance of local health 11 departments. 12 State appropriation........ 28,901,000 13 For local health departments for 14 environmental health services. 15 State appropriation........ 7,568,000 16 For maternal and child health 17 services, including $1,365,000 to 18 provide abstinence education, 19 training, counseling and programs to 20 promote abstinence from sexual 21 activity. 22 State appropriation........ 3,975,000 23 The following Federal amounts are 24 appropriated to supplement the sum 25 appropriated for maternal and child 26 health: 27 (1) "MCH Lead Poisoning Prevention 28 and Abatement." 29 Federal appropriation...... 1,657,000 30 (2) "MCHSBG - Program Services," 20030H1870B2436 - 8 -
1 including $150,000 for epilepsy 2 services. 3 Federal appropriation...... 17,665,000 4 (3) "Special Supplemental Food 5 Service Program for Women, Infants and 6 Children (WIC)." 7 Federal appropriation...... 150,970,000 8 In addition to the specific amounts 9 appropriated herein, all other moneys 10 received from the Federal Government 11 for the Special Supplemental Food 12 Service Program for Women, Infants and 13 Children are hereby appropriated to 14 such program. 15 (4) "Abstinence Education." 16 Federal appropriation...... 4,277,000 17 (5) "Environmental Assessment - 18 Child Lead Poisoning." 19 Federal appropriation...... 234,000 20 (6) "Family Health Special 21 Projects." 22 Federal appropriation...... 200,000 23 (7) "Screening Newborns." 24 Federal appropriation...... 219,000 25 (8) "Newborn Hearing Screening and 26 Intervention." 27 Federal appropriation...... 420,000 28 For grants to counties and private 29 facilities to finance drug and alcohol 30 abuse treatment and prevention 20030H1870B2436 - 9 -
1 programs. 2 State appropriation........ 40,498,000 3 The following Federal amounts are 4 appropriated to supplement the sum 5 appropriated for alcohol and drug 6 grant programs: 7 (1) "SABG - Drug and Alcohol 8 Services." 9 Federal appropriation...... 56,510,000 10 (2) "Substance Abuse Special 11 Project Grants." 12 Federal appropriation...... 5,220,000 13 For tuberculosis screening and 14 treatment. 15 [State appropriation....... 959,000] 16 State appropriation........ 1,009,000 17 The following Federal amounts are 18 appropriated to supplement the sum 19 appropriated for tuberculosis 20 screening and treatment: 21 (1) "Tuberculosis Control 22 Program." 23 Federal appropriation...... 165,000 24 For renal dialysis services. 25 State appropriation........ 8,895,000 26 For services to children with 27 special needs. This appropriation 28 includes funding for spina bifida 29 services, $944,000 for the Ventilator- 30 Assisted Childrens Home Program 20030H1870B2436 - 10 -
1 including case management and respite 2 care services, and public awareness 3 activities related to folic acid 4 ingestion. 5 [State appropriation....... 1,645,000] 6 State appropriation........ 1,732,000 7 [For adult cystic fibrosis. 8 State appropriation........ 685,000 9 For diagnosis and treatment for 10 Cooley's anemia. 11 State appropriation........ 188,000 12 For arthritis outreach and 13 education. 14 State appropriation........ 145,000 15 For hemophilia services. 16 State appropriation........ 1,428,000 17 For lupus programs. 18 State appropriation........ 58,000 19 For sickle-cell anemia services, 20 including camps for children with 21 sickle cell anemia. 22 State appropriation........ 1,808,000 23 For hepatitis screening and 24 prevention. 25 State appropriation........ 174,000 26 For regional poison control 27 centers. 28 State appropriation........ 725,000 29 For trauma programs coordination. 30 State appropriation........ 174,000 20030H1870B2436 - 11 -
1 For epilepsy support services. 2 State appropriation........ 290,000 3 For the Keystone Games. 4 State appropriation........ 220,000 5 For Tourette's Syndrome. 6 State appropriation........ 58,000 7 For newborn hearing screening 8 demonstration projects. 9 State appropriation........ 435,000 10 For osteoporosis prevention and 11 education programs. 12 State appropriation........ 58,000 13 For health research and services. 14 State appropriation........ 1,000,000] 15 For adult cystic fibrosis. 16 State appropriation........ 721,000 17 For diagnosis and treatment for 18 Cooley's anemia. 19 State appropriation........ 198,000 20 For arthritis outreach and 21 education. 22 State appropriation........ 250,000 23 For hemophilia services. 24 State appropriation........ 1,504,000 25 For lupus programs. 26 State appropriation........ 100,000 27 For sickle-cell anemia services, 28 including camps for children with 29 sickle cell anemia. 30 State appropriation........ 1,903,000 20030H1870B2436 - 12 -
1 For hepatitis screening and 2 prevention. 3 State appropriation........ 300,000 4 For regional poison control 5 centers. 6 State appropriation........ 1,250,000 7 For trauma programs coordination. 8 State appropriation........ 300,000 9 For epilepsy support services. 10 State appropriation........ 500,000 11 For the Keystone Games. 12 State appropriation........ 220,000 13 For Tourette's Syndrome. 14 State appropriation........ 100,000 15 For newborn hearing screening 16 demonstration projects. 17 State appropriation........ 750,000 18 For osteoporosis prevention and 19 education programs. 20 State appropriation........ 200,000 21 For health research and services. 22 State appropriation........ 5,250,000 23 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003, or 24 immediately, whichever is later. F18L84MRD/20030H1870B2436 - 13 -