PRINTER'S NO. 24
No. 20 Special Session No. 2 of 1995-1996
INTRODUCED BY LEMMOND, MUSTO, MADIGAN, MELLOW, JUBELIRER,
ROBBINS, WAGNER, JONES, LOEPER, CORMAN, PETERSON AND PICCOLA,
MARCH 22, 1996
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, MARCH 22, 1996
AN ACT
1 Making an appropriation from the Motor License Fund for non-
2 State-highway damage occurring during, or as a result of, the
3 blizzard of 1996 and the resulting flood emergency.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. The sum of $41,000,000, or as much thereof as may
7 be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the Motor License Fund
8 to the Department of Transportation to provide a State
9 contribution as part of the non-Federal share for county and
10 municipal highways and roads damaged or destroyed by the
11 blizzard of 1996 or the resulting flood emergency for which
12 Federal participation is provided pursuant to The Robert T.
13 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Public
14 Law 93-288, 88 Stat. 143).
15 Section 2. The required non-Federal contribution necessary
16 to secure Federal funding pursuant to The Robert T. Stafford
17 Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Public Law 93-288,
18 88 Stat. 143) shall be divided between the Commonwealth and the
1 affected political subdivision. The Commonwealth share shall be
2 22% and the political subdivision share shall be 3%.
3 Section 3. The Commonwealth may reduce the share of an
4 affected political subdivision if the tax base of that political
5 subdivision was substantially reduced as a direct result of the
6 blizzard of 1996 or the resulting flood emergency or if payment
7 of the local share would exceed 40% of the most recently adopted
8 annual budget of the political subdivision. The Commonwealth may
9 require the adoption of appropriate flood control or storm water
10 management plans as a condition of the waiver if the adoption of
11 the plan does not present additional financial hardship.
12 Section 4. Any portion of the money appropriated in this act
13 which remain unexpended, uncommitted, or unencumbered as of June
14 30, 1997, shall automatically lapse as of that date.
15 Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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