A05083
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1940
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY REED, SAYLOR, DUNBAR, NELSON, DELOZIER, R. BROWN,
WARD, BERNSTINE, CUTLER, BOBACK, GREINER, A. HARRIS, FEE,
BARRAR, ROTHMAN, RYAN, LAWRENCE, MILLARD, TURZAI, PHILLIPS-
HILL, HELM, DUSH, COX, EVERETT, OBERLANDER, TOEPEL, STAATS,
KEEFER, WHEELAND, BLOOM, DOWLING, WATSON, 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, providing for general appropriation bill
compensation suspension and further providing for revenue
estimates.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
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Section 1. Section 618(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
amended to read:
Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 613.1. General Appropriation Bill Compensation
Suspension.--(a) If the General Assembly fails to pass, or the
Governor vetoes, a general appropriation bill for a fiscal year,
compensation and reimbursement for expenses, including per
diems, for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, cabinet officers
and members of the General Assembly who are elected to
leadership positions shall be suspended until a general
appropriation bill has been passed by the General Assembly and
signed by the Governor.
(b) Compensation and reimbursement for expenses, including
per diems, shall be paid retroactively to the Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, cabinet officer or member of the General
Assembly for any service rendered between July 1 and the
enactment of a general appropriation bill in any year in which
the General Assembly has failed to pass or the Governor has
failed to sign a general appropriation bill.
Section 2. Section 618(a) of the act is amended to read:
Section 618. Revenue Estimates.--(a) (1) The Department of
Revenue in conjunction with the Secretary of the Budget shall
make revenue estimates for the use of the Governor in preparing
the budget with periodic revisions until the final estimate is
signed by the Governor not later than the time [he signs] the
general appropriation bill becomes law. The revenue estimates
used [to sign] in conjunction with any appropriation bill shall
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show separately State revenues, Federal funds, and, if
specifically appropriated, funds from other sources.
(2) [The] If the Governor signs an appropriation bill, the
Governor shall item veto any part [of any appropriation bill]
that causes total appropriations to exceed the official REVENUE
estimate plus any unappropriated surplus.
(3) If the general appropriation bill becomes law without
the approval of the Governor and the amount appropriated in the
general appropriation bill and other appropriation bills exceeds
the official REVENUE estimate plus any unappropriated surplus,
the following shall apply:
(i) The Secretary of the Budget shall, no later than the
time that the general appropriation bill becomes law, disapprove
or reduce amounts under section 615 from the departments, boards
and commissions to which section 615 applies which cause the
total appropriations to exceed the official REVENUE estimate
plus any unappropriated surplus.
(ii) Except as provided under subparagraph (iii), at no time
during a fiscal year when this paragraph applies may the total
amount disapproved or reduced under this paragraph be less than
the total amount disapproved or reduced under this paragraph at
the time the general appropriation bill becomes law.
(iii) During a fiscal year in which this subparagraph
applies, if a change in a statute affecting revenues and
receipts is enacted that results in a change in a revenue
estimate, the amounts disapproved or reduced under this
paragraph may be revised to account for the additional revenue.
(4) No changes in the [revenue estimates] OFFICIAL REVENUE
ESTIMATE shall be made thereafter unless changes in statutes
affecting revenues and receipts are enacted.
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Section 2 3. This act shall apply to general appropriation
acts enacted after the effective date of this act section.
Section 3 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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