PRINTER'S NO. 2899
No. 2279 Session of 1978
INTRODUCED BY PIEVSKY, APRIL 3, 1978
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, APRIL 3, 1978
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of (P.L. , No. ), entitled "An
2 act to provide for the expenses of the Executive, Legislative
3 and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth, the public debt
4 and for the public schools for the fiscal period July 1, 1978
5 to June 30, 1979, and for the payment of bills incurred and
6 remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal period ending
7 June 30, 1978," itemizing appropriations required from the
8 Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for the proper operations
9 of the several departments of the Commonwealth authorized to
10 spend Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund moneys.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. This supplement shall be known and may be cited
14 as the "Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund Supplement to the
15 General Appropriation Act of 1978."
16 Section 2. The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
17 necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the Federal
18 Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for the fiscal period July 1, 1978 to
19 June 30, 1979 to finance programs in the several hereinafter
20 named agencies:
21 I. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
22 To the Department of Education
1 Payments to school districts and intermediate
2 units on account of pupil transportation, including
3 nonpublic and hazardous pupil transportation..... $20,687,000
4 For payment to school districts and intermediate
5 units on account of education of exceptional
6 children in public schools....................... 53,600,000
7 For approved private schools.................. 2,500,000
8 To the Department of Environmental Resources
9 For payments to municipalities and municipality
10 authorities which have expended money to acquire
11 and construct sewage treatment plants in accordance
12 with the clean streams program and for the repair,
13 improvement or additions of certain sewage treatment
14 plants........................................... $13,630,000
15 To the Department of Health
16 For grants to county departments of health and
17 to municipalities for environmental health under
18 the act of August 24, 1951 (P.L.1304, No.315),
19 known as the "Local Health Administration Law"... $3,378,000
20 II. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
21 Miscellaneous
22 For the payment to the counties in reimbursement
23 of the direct costs incurred by the counties in the
24 administration and operation of all courts and for
25 offices of justices and judges of the Supreme,
26 Superior and Commonwealth Courts in the county of
27 their residence. Costs incurred by the counties
28 in the administration and operation of all courts
29 means costs as reported to the Department of
30 Community Affairs in the county's annual financial
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1 report forms under the heading (a) "Judicial," but
2 confined to the subheading: (160) courts, excluding
3 capital outlay. If a city coterminous with a
4 county does not report on the Department of
5 Community Affairs' form, its figures from the
6 same subheading, set forth in the department
7 forms, shall be used: Provided, That such
8 payments shall be made to the county treasurer
9 and in cities of the first class coterminous with
10 counties of the first class to the city treasurer:
11 And provided further, That in the event the amount
12 herein appropriated is not sufficient to reimburse
13 all such costs, payments shall be made to the
14 counties in the proportion which the costs of each
15 county bears to the total costs of all counties
16 during the most recently completed fiscal year:
17 And provided further, That in making allocations
18 and payments hereunder, the Court Administrator of
19 Pennsylvania shall, except for county offices of
20 justices and judges of the Supreme, Superior and
21 Commonwealth Courts, exclude all costs which are
22 not properly reportable under the heading herein-
23 above specified.................................. $24,000,000
24 Section 3. All Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund moneys
25 expended by the several State agencies named herein, or by any
26 political subdivision, organization or other agency receiving
27 such moneys from the State agencies named herein shall be spent
28 only in accordance with rules and regulations regarding the
29 expenditure of funds made available under Public Law 92-512,
30 entitled State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.
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1 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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