PRINTER'S NO. 4523
No. 2904 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY CAWLEY, SOLOBAY, GEORGE, READSHAW, TIGUE,
LEVDANSKY, PISTELLA, WILT, CURRY, HALUSKA, LAUGHLIN, LEACH,
JOSEPHS, MUSTIO, SCHRODER, DALEY, CORRIGAN, MARSICO, KOTIK,
YOUNGBLOOD, BELFANTI, DeWEESE, COSTA, YUDICHAK, REICHLEY,
SCAVELLO, GRUITZA, KELLER, THOMAS, CALTAGIRONE, BASTIAN,
BELARDI, HORSEY, HARHAI, DeLUCA, HESS AND FREEMAN,
OCTOBER 18, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, OCTOBER 18, 2004
AN ACT
1 Establishing the Flood Protection and Mitigation Tax Fund; and
2 conferring powers and duties on the Pennsylvania Emergency
3 Management Agency and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Short title.
7 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Flood
8 Protection and Mitigation Tax Act.
9 Section 2. Definitions.
10 "Agency." The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
11 "Board." The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
12 "Fund." The Flood Protection and Mitigation Tax Fund
13 established in section 4.
14 Section 3. Administration.
15 (a) Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.--The agency
16 has the power and duty to utilize money in the fund to assist
1 with expenses caused by the Flood of 2004.
2 (b) Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.--The board has the
3 power and duty to make the transfer under section 4(b).
4 Section 4. Fund.
5 (a) Establishment.--The Flood Protection and Mitigation Tax
6 Fund is established as a restricted fund in the State Treasury.
7 (b) Source.--The source of the fund is the annual transfer
8 of $55,000,000 into the fund from the tax collected under the
9 act of June 9, 1936 (1st Sp.Sess., P.L.13, No.4), entitled "An
10 act imposing an emergency State tax on liquor, as herein
11 defined, sold by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board;
12 providing for the collection and payment of such tax; and
13 imposing duties upon the Department of Revenue and the
14 Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board."
15 (c) Use.--The agency shall use the money in the fund as set
16 forth in section 3(a).
17 (d) Continuing appropriation.--The money in the fund is
18 continuously appropriated into the fund. This appropriation
19 shall not lapse at the end of any fiscal year.
20 Section 20. Effective date.
21 This act shall take effect immediately.
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