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A07735
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1929
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MARSICO, DELOZIER, STEPHENS, CORBIN, MILLARD,
BARRAR, CUTLER, CHARLTON, DRISCOLL, SCHWEYER, RYAN, DEAN,
PASHINSKI, TOOHIL, JAMES, PICKETT, WARD, O'NEILL, HILL-EVANS,
EVERETT, PYLE, KEEFER, SAYLOR, ORTITAY, READSHAW, DEASY,
KNOWLES, BARBIN, JOZWIAK, CORR, M. QUINN, KLUNK, WHITE,
PHILLIPS-HILL AND NESBIT, NOVEMBER 17, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled,
as amended, "An act relating to the finances of the State
government; providing for cancer control, prevention and
research, for ambulatory surgical center data collection and
for the Joint Underwriting Association, providing for the
settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes, bonus,
and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the collection
and recovery of fees and other money or property due or
belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
department, board, commission, and officer of the State
government, every political subdivision of the State, and
certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
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other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
Commonwealth," in First Chance Trust Fund, further providing
for use of fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1754-A.1(c) of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, added October 30,
2017 (P.L. , No.44), is amended to read:
Section 1754-A.1. Use of fund.
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(c) Authorization.--The commission [may] shall allocate
revenues from the fund for all of the following purposes:
(1) Establishing and operating a scholarship program for
students who reside in those regions of this Commonwealth
which have statistically higher high school dropout rates,
incarceration rates or high crime rates as determined by the
commission.
(2) Providing grants to programs that benefit children
who reside in those regions of this Commonwealth which have
statistically higher high school dropout rates, incarceration
rates or high crime rates as determined by the commission.
(3) Providing a scholarship program and grants to
programs that benefit students and children who reside in
those regions of this Commonwealth which have statistically
higher high school dropout rates, incarceration rates or high
crime rates as determined by the commission and who have been
the victims of violent crime or whose parent or guardian was
the victim of a homicide or other violent crime.
(3) In determining preference for student scholarships
or programs that benefit children, the commission shall
consider factors including the victimization of the student
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or child, the risk factors as identified by the statement of
policy required under subsection (e) and the impact of crime
on the student or child.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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