PRINTER'S NO. 2066
No. 1748 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY GEORGE, FEE, PISTELLA, PESCI, PETRARCA, STABACK,
GODSHALL AND HUTCHINSON, JUNE 9, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JUNE 9, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," further providing for tax levies; and
6 requiring referendums for capital expenditures.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 603 of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
10 No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, amended June 2,
11 1965 (P.L.86, No.59) and September 1, 1965 (P.L.433, No.218), is
12 amended to read:
13 Section 603. Only One Annual Tax Levy.--There shall be but
14 one levy of school taxes made in each school district in each
15 year, which shall be assessed, levied, and collected for all the
16 purposes provided in this act, and shall be uniform throughout
17 the territorial limit of each school district, except that those
18 school taxes which school districts are empowered to levy under
19 the authority of the act of June 25, 1947 (P.L.1145), as
1 amended, may be levied at any time during the period authorized
2 for the assessment and levy of any school taxes: Provided, That
3 (1) where two or more school districts have voted to become a
4 union school district in accordance with the provisions of this
5 act and prior to the actual creation of the union school
6 district, the school board members by a majority vote of all the
7 members comprising said school boards shall assess and levy a
8 uniform school tax in all of the districts comprising said union
9 school district for general revenue purposes necessary to
10 operate said union school district commencing the first day of
11 July following the vote establishing said union district, and
12 (2) whenever hereafter a school district of the second, third,
13 or fourth class shall be annexed to and merged in, and become a
14 part of a school district of the first class or first class A,
15 or shall be merged into and become a part of a school district
16 of the first class A as a reorganized district under the
17 provisions of Article II, subdivision (i) of this act, the board
18 of public education of said school district of the first class
19 or first class A shall have power to levy a special school tax
20 on the territory which comprised said annexed and merged school
21 district or on the territory which comprised the school district
22 merged into and becoming a part of a school district of the
23 first class A as a reorganized district, to provide for the
24 expense and maintenance of the schools thereof from the end of
25 the school year of said annexed and merged or merged by force of
26 reorganization school district to the beginning of the next
27 school year in said school district of the first class or first
28 class A, and to provide for and pay the floating indebtedness of
29 said annexed and merged or merged by force of reorganization
30 school district. Said levy shall not exceed one-half of the last
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1 previous total annual millage levied by said school district of
2 the first class or first class A. Said levy shall not result in
3 a tax increase in excess of the increase, for the same tax year,
4 in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers prepared by
5 the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department
6 of Labor.
7 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
8 Section 613. Referendum for Capital Expenditure.--The board
9 of school directors of any school district may not authorize a
10 capital expenditure that will result in a tax increase without
11 the consent of the electors obtained by referendum.
12 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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