PRINTER'S NO. 662
No. 611 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY O'PAKE, BOSCOLA, COSTA, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE,
WAUGH, ORIE, FERLO, RHOADES, RAFFERTY, MUSTO, LAVALLE,
ERICKSON, STOUT, PILEGGI, C. WILLIAMS, McILHINNEY, BROWNE,
DINNIMAN, KITCHEN AND WASHINGTON, MARCH 21, 2007
REFERRED TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, MARCH 21, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
2 act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
3 welfare laws of the Commonwealth," further providing for
4 payments to counties for services to children.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 704.1(g) of the act of June 13, 1967
8 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code, added July 9,
9 1976 (P.L.846, No.148), is amended and the section is amended by
10 adding a subsection to read:
11 Section 704.1. Payments to Counties for Services to
12 Children.--* * *
13 (b.1) Payments shall be made in equal quarterly installments
14 of the amount fixed by section 709.3, the first of which shall
15 be for the quarter beginning July 1 and ending September 30; the
16 second installment shall be for the quarter beginning October 1
17 and ending December 31; the third installment shall be for the
18 quarter beginning January 1 and ending March 31; and the fourth
1 installment shall be for the quarter beginning April 1 and
2 ending June 30; the local contribution required under this
3 section shall not be required to be paid until the fourth
4 quarter payment is due. The quarterly payment shall be paid at
5 the beginning of each quarter for which the county institution
6 district or its successor has budgeted an amount equal to one
7 quarter of the annual local contribution required. At the close
8 of the fourth quarter, the total payments made to the county
9 institution district or its successor in accordance with section
10 709.3 shall be reconciled and adjusted in accordance with this
11 section and section 709.3.
12 * * *
13 [(g) The department shall, within forty-five days of each
14 calendar quarter, pay fifty percent of the department's share of
15 the county institution district's or its successor's estimated
16 expenditures for that quarter.]
17 * * *
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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