PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1180, 1228, 1407 PRINTER'S NO. 1510
No. 1023 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY PIEVSKY, MAY 24, 1983
AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 28, 1983
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of April 1, 1863 (P.L.213, No.227), entitled "An act
2 to accept the grant of Public Lands, by the United States, to
3 the several states, for the endowment of Agricultural
4 Colleges," making appropriations to Pennsylvania State
5 University; providing for a basis for payments of the
6 appropriations; and providing a method of accounting for the
7 funds appropriated.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
11 necessary, are hereby appropriated to the Trustees of
12 Pennsylvania State University, for the fiscal year July 1, 1983
13 to June 30, 1984, for the following purposes and amounts:
14 (1) For educational and general expenses..... $109,041,000
15 (2) For cost of student aid.................. 1,760,000
16 (3) For cost of research..................... 9,932,000
17 (4) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine only 3,160,000
18 (5) For cost of agricultural research........ 11,820,000
19 (6) For cost of agricultural extension
20 services................................. 10,002,000
1 (7) For cost of operating Elizabethtown
2 Hospital................................. 3,328,000
3 (8) For cost of soil survey.................. 100,000
4 (9) To enhance the recruitment and
5 retention of disadvantaged students...... 200,000
6 (10) For the purchase of services
7 from the Buhl-Henderson Community
8 Library of Sharon, Pennsylvania.......... 25,000
9 Section 2. Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
10 account of the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be
11 made on the basis of costs during the fiscal year.
12 Section 3. If necessary, Pennsylvania State University may
13 transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1(1),
14 (2), (3), (5) and (6). The aggregate amount transferred into or
15 out of each appropriation during the fiscal year shall not
16 exceed 5% of the amount specifically appropriated for that
17 purpose.
18 Section 4. (a) Payments to Pennsylvania State University of
19 the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be made monthly
20 during the fiscal year.
21 (b) The monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
22 section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The estimate of costs
23 shall be submitted by the Pennsylvania State University to the
24 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the State
25 Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the date on which the
26 payment is to be made.
27 Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of the General
28 Appropriation Act of 1983 relating to the payment of retirement
29 expenses, the Trustees of Pennsylvania State University shall
30 make all required payments to the State Employees' Retirement
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1 Fund from the funds appropriated pursuant to this act.
2 Section 6. (a) Pennsylvania State University shall apply
3 the moneys appropriated by this act only for the purposes
4 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
5 records showing the application of the moneys. Not later than
6 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
7 relates, Pennsylvania State University shall file with the
8 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the Auditor
9 General a statement setting forth the amounts and purposes of
10 all expenditures made from moneys appropriated by this act and
11 other university accounts during the fiscal year, as provided in
12 section 2, used as a basis for receipt of any appropriation
13 during the fiscal year.
14 (b) The statement of expenditures and costs shall be
15 reviewed by the Auditor General who has the right, in respect to
16 the moneys appropriated by this act, to audit and disallow
17 expenditures made for purposes not permitted by this act and to
18 cause such sums to be recovered and paid by Pennsylvania State
19 University to the State Treasurer. In respect to expenditures
20 made by the university from moneys other than those appropriated
21 by this act, the Auditor General has the right to review only
22 and shall file annually with the General Assembly any
23 information concerning these expenditures as the General
24 Assembly or any of its committees may require.
25 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
26 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
27 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
28 except the Doctor of Medicine program. The report, to be
29 submitted prior to September 1, 1984, shall cover the 12-month
30 period beginning with the summer term 1983 and shall include:
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1 (1) The following counts and distributions for each term
2 during the period:
3 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
4 full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
5 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
6 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
7 enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
8 in undergraduate courses.
9 (ii) The total numbers of undergraduate student credit
10 hours, divided into lower division and upper division course
11 levels and of graduate student credit hours divided into three
12 course levels: master's, first professional and doctoral.
13 (iii) The number of different courses scheduled by level of
14 instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
15 at each level of instruction.
16 (iv) The number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
17 (2) For the summer term and the following academic year in
18 total and for each two-digit Hegis category of instructional
19 programs in higher education as defined by the National Center
20 for Education Statistics, United States Department of Education,
21 a classification of faculty members or other professional
22 employees by title including: professor, associate professor,
23 assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
24 librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
25 professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
26 of assignment: teaching and nonteaching, with each set of
27 faculty members or other professional employees to be further
28 subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time and the
29 following aggregates for each subdivided classification:
30 (i) The number of faculty and other professional employees
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1 and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
2 noninstructional functions.
3 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
4 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
5 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
6 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
7 (iii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
8 individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
9 to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
10 lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
11 doctoral course levels.
12 (iv) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
13 and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
14 generated; divided into lower division, upper division,
15 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
16 (v) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
17 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
18 student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
19 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
20 levels.
21 (vi) The total salary paid for instructional functions and
22 for noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary
23 paid for each of these functions from college or university
24 funds, Federal funds and other funds.
25 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
26 member employed full-time identified by two-digit Hegis category
27 and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the average
28 hours per week spent in college or university-related
29 activities, stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate
30 classroom contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
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1 preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
2 service.
3 Section 8. (a) In addition to the requirements in section 7
4 relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
5 period beginning with the summer term 1983 shall include for all
6 programs of the university:
7 (1) The minimum number of credits required for a
8 baccalaureate degree and for a master's degree.
9 (2) The number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees,
10 first professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1981,
11 1982, 1983 and estimated 1984.
12 (b) Pennsylvania State University shall report its revenues
13 and expenditures and present its financial statements required
14 under the provisions of this act in accordance with the "Higher
15 Education Finance Manual of 1975."
16 Section 9. An additional report shall be submitted to the
17 Governor and the Appropriations and Education Committees of the
18 Senate and House of Representatives and shall include data which
19 indicates the increase in recruitment and retention activities
20 of the Pennsylvania State University relating to minority <--
21 DISADVANTAGED students and faculty and the extent to which such <--
22 activities have increased or will increase minority <--
23 DISADVANTAGED student enrollment and minority faculty <--
24 participation.
25 Section 10. Pennsylvania State University shall provide such
26 information as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of
27 this act and in the form and manner as the Department of
28 Education may prescribe.
29 Section 11. Pennsylvania State University shall report its
30 revenues and expenditures and present its financial statements
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1 required under the provisions of this act in accordance with
2 generally accepted accounting principles and procedures for
3 educational institutions as set forth in the "Higher Education
4 Finance Manual of 1975," with the exceptions set forth in the
5 "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State
6 Related Universities, Phase I, Fiscal Year 1983-1984." Credits
7 granted for nontraditional programs such as CLEP, lifelong
8 learning etc., including all related costs and revenues thereof
9 shall be excluded from the function of "Instruction" and
10 included under "Public Service."
11 Section 12. This act shall take effect July 1, 1983 or, if
12 enacted subsequent to that date, then immediately.
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