PRINTER'S NO. 1249
No. 1090 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY SATHER, FLEAGLE, SAYLOR, ORIE, M. COHEN,
FAIRCHILD, CALTAGIRONE, MYERS, SOLOBAY, SHANER, LAUGHLIN,
WILT, WOJNAROSKI, M. BAKER, BELARDI, BEBKO-JONES, GEIST,
LUCYK, McCALL, J. TAYLOR, GRUCELA, HESS, SCHRODER, PIPPY,
FREEMAN, HARHAI, BELFANTI, MELIO, HUTCHINSON, SEMMEL,
YOUNGBLOOD, PETRARCA, TIGUE, ROBERTS AND HASAY,
MARCH 20, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 20, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for an emergency services registration
3 plate; creating an emergency services incident safety fund;
4 and making an appropriation.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 1361. Emergency services plate.
10 The department, in consultation with the Pennsylvania
11 Emergency Management Agency, shall design a special emergency
12 services registration plate. Upon application of any person who
13 is an emergency services responder, accompanied by a fee of $35,
14 which shall be in addition to the annual registration fee, the
15 department shall issue the plate for a passenger car or truck
16 with a registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.
1 The Emergency Services Incident Safety Fund shall receive $15 of
2 the fee paid by the applicant for the plate.
3 Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
4 subsection to read:
5 § 1905. Payments to special funds.
6 * * *
7 (d) Emergency Services Incident Safety Fund.--Fifteen
8 dollars of each fee received under section 1361 (relating to
9 emergency services plate) shall be credited to the Emergency
10 Services Incident Safety Fund as follows:
11 (1) There is hereby established a special account in the
12 Treasury Department which shall be known as the Emergency
13 Services Incident Safety Fund. The purpose of the Emergency
14 Services Incident Safety Fund is to provide educational
15 programs and activities that will enhance the safety of
16 emergency service responders within this Commonwealth.
17 (2) All moneys in the Emergency Services Incident Safety
18 Fund are hereby annually appropriated to the Pennsylvania
19 Emergency Management Agency to be expended for the purposes
20 of this subsection.
21 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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