PRINTER'S NO. 1696
No. 1458 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY FOX, NAHILL, CORNELL, LASHINGER, REBER AND BUNT,
MAY 22, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MAY 22, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 24, 1951 (P.L.1304, No.315),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act to improve local health
3 administration throughout the Commonwealth by authorizing the
4 creation, establishment and administration of single-county
5 or joint-county departments of health in all counties;
6 exempting certain municipalities from the jurisdiction of
7 single-county or joint-county departments of health;
8 permitting the dissolution of departments or boards of health
9 in certain municipalities; authorizing State grants to
10 counties which establish departments of health and to certain
11 municipalities if they meet prescribed requirements;
12 conferring powers and duties upon the State Department of
13 Health in connection with the creation, establishment and
14 administration of single-county or joint-county departments
15 of health and administration of the health laws in parts of
16 certain municipalities not subject to the jurisdiction of
17 single-county or joint-county departments of health, and the
18 administration of State grants; and repealing an act which
19 confers health powers upon counties of the first class,"
20 providing that the costs of operating county health
21 departments in counties of the second class A shall be paid
22 by the Commonwealth; and making repeals.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of August 24, 1951 (P.L.1304, No.315),
26 known as the Local Health Administration Law, is amended by
27 adding a section to read:
1 Section 25.1. State Grants to Counties of the Second Class
2 A.--Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, every
3 county department of health created under this act by a county
4 of the second class A shall receive annual State grants in an
5 amount sufficient to pay its approved expenditures in full. The
6 county commissioners shall, at least sixty (60) days prior to
7 the end of each calendar year, submit to the State Secretary of
8 Health, on forms prescribed by him, an estimate of expenditures
9 to cover the operation of the county department of health for
10 the following calendar year. The estimate of expenditures shall
11 state the names of the exempt municipalities which have not
12 decided to become subject to the jurisdiction of the county
13 department of health in accordance with section 15 of this act.
14 The State Secretary of Health shall examine each estimate of
15 expenditures and shall deduct therefrom all items which do not
16 represent expenditures within the lawful scope of the powers of
17 the particular county department of health. Thirty (30) days
18 after he has received the estimate of expenditures, the State
19 Secretary of Health shall draw a requisition upon the State
20 Auditor General in favor of the particular county department of
21 health for a grant in the total amount of the remaining
22 expenditures.
23 Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar
24 as they are inconsistent with this act.
25 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 1989.
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