PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 737 PRINTER'S NO. 1556
No. 693 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY CIANFRANI, APRIL 18, 1977
SENATOR SMITH, APPROPRIATIONS, RE-REPORTED AS AMENDED
JANUARY 30, 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, 1977
5 to June 30, 1978, and for the payment of bills incurred and
6 remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal period ending
7 June 30, 1977," 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 1977."
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, 1977 to
19 June 30, 1978 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..... $23,600,000 <--
4 $20,687,000
5 For payment to school districts and intermediate
6 units on account of education of exceptional
7 children in public schools....................... 53,600,000
8 For approved private schools.................. 2,500,000
9 FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING AUTHORITY FOR THE <--
10 SALARIES, WAGES AND EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE
11 PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF THE AUTHORITY........... 1,000,000
12 To the Department of Environmental Resources
13 For payments to municipalities and municipality
14 authorities which have expended money to acquire
15 and construct sewage treatment plants in accordance
16 with the clean streams program and for the repair,
17 improvement or additions of certain sewage treatment
18 plants........................................... 12,000,000 <--
19 12,250,000
20 To the Department of Health
21 For grants to county departments of health and
22 to municipalities for environmental health under
23 the act of August 24, 1951 (P.L.1304, No.315),
24 known as the "Local Health Administration Law"... 3,421,000
25 TO THE STATE TREASURER <--
26 FOR SALARIES, WAGES AND ALL NECESSARY EXPENSES
27 FOR THE PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF THE TREASURY
28 DEPARTMENT.................................... 600,000
29 II. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
30 Miscellaneous
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1 For the payment to the counties in reimbursement
2 of the direct costs incurred by the counties in the
3 administration and operation of all courts and for
4 offices of justices and judges of the Supreme,
5 Superior and Commonwealth Courts in the county of
6 their residence. Costs incurred by the counties
7 in the administration and operation of all courts
8 means costs as reported to the Department of
9 Community Affairs in the county's annual financial
10 report forms under the heading (a) "Judicial," but
11 confined to the subheading: (160) courts, excluding
12 capital outlay. If a city coterminous with a
13 county does not report on the Department of
14 Community Affairs' form, its figures from the
15 same subheading, set forth in the department
16 forms, shall be used: Provided, That such
17 payments shall be made to the county treasurer
18 and in cities of the first class coterminous with
19 counties of the first class to the city treasurer:
20 And, provided further, That in the event the amount
21 herein appropriated is not sufficient to reimburse
22 all such costs, payments shall be made to the
23 counties in the proportion which the costs of each
24 county bears to the total costs of all counties
25 during the most recently completed fiscal year:
26 And provided further, That in making allocations
27 and payments hereunder, the Court Administrator of
28 Pennsylvania shall, except for county offices of
29 justices and judges of the Supreme, Superior and
30 Commonwealth Courts, exclude all costs which are
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1 not properly reportable under the heading herein-
2 above specified.................................. 24,000,000
3 Section 3. All Federal Revenue Sharing Trust Fund moneys
4 expended by the several State agencies named herein, or by any
5 political subdivision, organization or other agency receiving
6 such moneys from the State agencies named herein shall be spent
7 only in accordance with rules and regulations regarding the
8 expenditure of funds made available under Public Law 92-512,
9 entitled State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.
10 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 1977.
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