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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | October 9, 2015 09:34 AM |
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| From: | Representative Stephen Bloom |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | 2015-16 Appropriation – Dept. of Education Pupil Transportation |
| Since Governor Wolf’s June 30 veto of the 2015-16 general appropriations bill (HB 1192) and his September 28 veto of the four-month emergency funding bill (SB 1000), state and federal tax dollars have continued to accumulate in our state treasury. The governor’s vetoes have blocked these funds from reaching schools and human service providers, putting students and vulnerable citizens in peril. Vital programming has been cut and, in some cases, halted. Each day the crisis deepens, children lose education, workers lose jobs, and people in need lose help. Therefore, I will soon introduce the following and several other freestanding appropriation bills to fully release critical blocked funding for education, health, and human services, in amounts at or very near those proposed by the governor in his 2015-16 budget and passed by the General Assembly in HB 1192: A bill (HB 1586) to appropriate $549.097 million in the Department of Education’s budget for pupil transportation costs. This appropriation provides reimbursement to school districts and intermediate units for regular transportation to and from school, area-vocational technical schools transportation, and transportation of exceptional students. This appropriation is used to make payments to school districts for providing resident pupils with free transportation to and from schools in which they are enrolled. The payments are made using a vehicle-based formula. The amount of $549.097 million is the same as the amount that was included in both the Governor’s March 3rd budget proposal and in House Bill 1192. Please join me in co-sponsoring this important and urgently necessary legislation. |
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Introduced as HB1586