THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY FARRY, OCTOBER 12, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, OCTOBER 12, 2010  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as

reenacted, "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and

malt and brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating

and changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and

restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,

consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding

in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic

liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the

persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and

duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing

for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,

for the payment of certain license fees to the respective

municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain

nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure

without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;

providing for local option, and repealing existing laws,"

further providing for alcohol tax moneys paid into General

Fund.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 803 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,

No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended June 29,

1987 (P.L.32, No.14), is amended to read:

Section 803.  Alcohol Tax Moneys Paid Into General Fund.--(a)  

All taxes collected or received by the board on sales of taxable

alcohol under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the

State Treasury through the Department of Revenue into the

[General] Public School Employees' Retirement Fund for

disposition as provided in subsection (b).

(b)  (1)  The funds deposited into the Public School

Employees' Retirement Fund under subsection (a) shall be

credited by the Public School Employees' Retirement Board to the

payments required by each school district under 24 Pa.C.S. §

8327 (relating to payments by employers) in proportion to the

amount required to be paid by the school district in relation to

the amount required to be paid by all school districts under 24

Pa.C.S. § 8327.

(2)  No school district shall be credited with more than five

per centum of the total amount of funds deposited into the

Public School Employees' Retirement Fund under subsection (a).

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.