PRINTER'S NO. 611
No. 517 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY HESS, GEIST, STERN, READSHAW, BELFANTI, CAPPELLI,
CAUSER, CAWLEY, CLYMER, COLEMAN, COSTA, CREIGHTON, DALEY,
FAIRCHILD, FLEAGLE, GODSHALL, HALUSKA, HARHAI, HARPER,
HENNESSEY, HERMAN, HERSHEY, HUTCHINSON, LAUGHLIN, LEH, LEWIS,
MAJOR, MARKOSEK, McILHATTAN, MELIO, R. MILLER, NICKOL, PAYNE,
RUBLEY, SAINATO, SATHER, SCHRODER, SCRIMENTI, SEMMEL, SHANER,
B. SMITH, STABACK, STEIL, E. Z. TAYLOR, TURZAI, WILT AND
YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 26, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 26, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for legislative review of State
3 highway transfers and for allocation of proceeds from taxes
4 for highway maintenance and construction.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Sections 9208 and 9511(b) and (g)(1) of Title 75
8 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
9 [§ 9208. Periodic review by General Assembly.
10 Every two years the transportation committees of the House of
11 Representatives and the Senate shall hold joint public hearings
12 and jointly review the performance and effectiveness of the
13 program of highway transfer established by this chapter. The
14 committees shall make a joint report to the Speaker of the House
15 of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate and
16 the House and Senate appropriations committees.]
1 § 9511. Allocation of proceeds.
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3 (b) State Highway Transfer Restoration Restricted Account.--
4 The amount of the proceeds deposited in the Motor License Fund
5 pursuant to this chapter which, in any fiscal year [1983-1984],
6 is attributable to [two] four mills of the tax imposed under
7 section 9502(a) (relating to imposition of tax) [and which, in
8 fiscal year 1984-1985 and thereafter, is attributable to three
9 mills of the tax,] shall be deposited in the State Highway
10 Transfer Restoration Restricted Account within the Motor License
11 Fund, which account is hereby created. The funds deposited in
12 the State Highway Transfer Restoration Restricted Account are
13 hereby annually appropriated out of the account upon
14 authorization by the Governor for expenditure as provided in
15 subsection (g).
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17 (g) Use of funds.--The funds appropriated in subsection (b)
18 shall be used to pay for the costs of restoration of such
19 highways as provided in Chapter 92 (relating to transfer of
20 State highways) and annual payments to the municipalities for
21 highway maintenance in accordance with the following:
22 (1) Annual maintenance payments shall be at the rate of
23 [$2,500] $3,000 per mile for each highway or portion of
24 highway transferred under Chapter 92 [(relating to transfer
25 of State highways)], section 222 of the act of June 1, 1945
26 (P.L.1242, No.428), known as the State Highway Law, or any
27 statute enacted in 1981.
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29 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003, or
30 immediately, whichever is later.
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