Regular Session 2017-2018 House Bill 1944 P.N. 2782

PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2767

PRINTER'S NO. 2782

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1944

Session of

2017

INTRODUCED BY DELOZIER, REED, SAYLOR, DUNBAR, NELSON, R. BROWN,

WARD, BERNSTINE, CUTLER, BOBACK, A. HARRIS, FEE, BARRAR,

ROTHMAN, RYAN, LAWRENCE, MILLARD, TURZAI, PHILLIPS-HILL,

GREINER, HELM, DUSH, COX, EVERETT, TOEPEL, STAATS, KEEFER,

WHEELAND, BLOOM, DOWLING, KLUNK, MASSER, BENNINGHOFF, GROVE

AND SONNEY, DECEMBER 1, 2017

AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 5, 2017

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled,

as amended, "An act providing for and reorganizing the

conduct of the executive and administrative work of the

Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the

administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers

thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal

Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating,

reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain

administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining

the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and

administrative officers, and of the several administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the

salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain

other executive and administrative officers; providing for

the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of

all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain

departments, boards, and commissions; providing for judicial

administration; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," in Commonwealth budget

procedures, further providing for submission of budget to

General Assembly and for transmission of budget information

to the General Assembly.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 613 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,

No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by

adding a clause to read:

Section 613. Submission of Budget to General Assembly.--As

soon as possible after the organization of the General Assembly,

but not later than the first full week in February of each year,

except in the case where a Governor has been elected for his

first term of office and then no later than the first full week

in March, the Governor shall submit to the General Assembly

copies of original agency budget requests and all subsequent

revised agency budget requests and a State budget and program

and financial plan embracing:

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(5) Suggested legislative language necessary to implement

the operating budget and program and financial plan submitted

under this section. The following apply to suggested legislative

language submitted under this clause:

(i) The suggested legislative language shall be sent to each

member of the General Assembly and made available on the Office

of the Budget's publicly accessible Internet website no later

than fifteen (15) days after the submissions are presented under

paragraphs CLAUSES (1), (2) and (3).

(ii) The submission shall include a general appropriation

bill, other appropriation bills, nonpreferred appropriation

bills or statutory authorizations, including language for

proposals for bills to raise revenue and proposals for formulas

for distribution of money.

Section 2. Section 619 of the act is amended by adding a

subsection to read:

Section 619. Transmission of Budget Information to the

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General Assembly.--* * *

(e) No later than ninety (90) days after the enactment of a

general appropriation act, the Secretary of the Budget shall

prepare and submit a summary of appropriations to the Majority

and Minority Chairmen of the Appropriations Committees of the

Senate and the House of Representatives. The summary shall

include the following for each appropriation in the general

appropriation act:

(1) The name AND DESCRIPTION of the appropriation.

(2) Whether the appropriation or the program funded by the

appropriation is required by State law.

(3) Citations to applicable State law governing the use,

allocation or distribution of the money appropriated.

(4) Whether the appropriation or the program funded by the

appropriation is required by Federal law.

(5) Citations to applicable Federal law governing the use,

allocation or distribution of the money appropriated.

(6) Whether the appropriation is augmented by other State

money.

(7) Whether the appropriation is augmented by Federal money.

(8) Whether the appropriation is used to receive Federal

matching funds.

(9) Whether the appropriation is used to fund a program

which, under Federal law, requires services to be provided to

all eligible applicants regardless of the amount appropriated.

(10) Whether the appropriation is used to fund a program

which, under State law, requires services to be provided to all

eligible applicants regardless of the amount appropriated.

Section 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018, or

immediately, whichever is later.

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