H0153B1318A05595 SFR:JMT 01/21/16 #90 A05595
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 153
Sponsor: SENATOR WILLIAMS
Printer's No. 1318
Amend Bill, page 1, line 1, by striking out "an amendment"
and inserting
integrated amendments
Amend Bill, page 1, line 2, by striking out "reducing the
size of the General Assembly." and inserting
further providing for election of members and vacancies, for
terms of members, for sessions, for compensation, for
legislative districts, for Governor's budget and financial
plan, for appropriations and for surplus.
Amend Bill, page 1, lines 5 through 7, by striking out all of
said lines and inserting
Section 1. The following integrated amendments to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania are proposed in accordance with
Article XI:
(1) That section 2 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 2. Election of members; vacancies.
Members of the General Assembly shall be chosen at the
general election [every second year]. Their term of service
shall begin on the first day of December next after their
election. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in either House, the
presiding officer thereof shall issue a writ of election to fill
such vacancy for the remainder of the term.
(2) That section 3 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 3. Terms of members.
[Senators] (a) Except as provided under subsection (b),
members shall be elected for the term of four years [and
Representatives for the term of two years].
(b) At the first general election after the adoption of the
amendment adding this subsection, members from odd-numbered
districts shall be elected for terms of four years.
(3) That section 4 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 4. Sessions.
(a) The General Assembly shall be a continuing body [during
the term for which its Representatives are elected. It shall
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meet at 12 o'clock noon on] from the first Tuesday of January
[each] of an odd-numbered year[.] until November 30 of the
fourth following year . Regular sessions shall be conducted
during the months of January and February in each odd-numbered
year. Special sessions shall be called by the Governor on
petition of a majority of the members elected to each House or
may be called by the Governor whenever in his opinion the public
interest requires.
(b) The amendment of subsection (a) shall apply to the
General Assembly elected at the first general election after the
adoption of the amendment adding this subsection.
(4) That section 8 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 8. Compensation.
The members of the General Assembly shall receive [such
salary] compensation for their services and mileage for regular
and special sessions as shall be fixed by law, and no other
compensation whatever, whether for service upon committee or
otherwise. No member of either House shall during the term for
which he may have been elected, receive any increase of salary,
or mileage, under any law passed during such term.
(5) That section 16 of Article II be amended to read:
Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting between lines 2 and 3
(6) That section 12 of Article VIII be amended to read:
§ 12. Governor's budgets and financial plan.
[Annually] Biennially, at the times set by law, the Governor
shall submit to the General Assembly:
(a) A balanced operating budget for the ensuing two fiscal
[year] years setting forth in detail for each fiscal year (i)
proposed expenditures classified by department or agency and by
program and (ii) estimated revenues from all sources. If
estimated revenues and available surplus are less than proposed
expenditures, the Governor shall recommend specific additional
sources of revenue sufficient to pay the deficiency and the
estimated revenue to be derived from each source;
(b) A capital budget for the ensuing two fiscal [year] years
setting forth in detail for each fiscal year proposed
expenditures to be financed from the proceeds of obligations of
the Commonwealth or of its agencies or authorities or from
operating funds; and
(c) A financial plan for not less than the next succeeding
[five] six fiscal years, which plan shall include for each such
fiscal year:
(i) Projected operating expenditures classified by
department or agency and by program, in reasonable detail, and
estimated revenues, by major categories, from existing and
additional sources, and
(ii) Projected expenditures for capital projects
specifically itemized by purpose, and the proposed sources of
financing each.
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(7) That section 13 of Article VIII be amended to read:
§ 13. Appropriations.
(a) Operating budget appropriations made by the General
Assembly shall not exceed the actual and estimated revenues and
surplus available in the same fiscal year.
(b) The General Assembly shall adopt a capital budget for
the ensuing two fiscal [year] years.
(8) That section 14 of Article VIII be amended to read:
§ 14. Surplus.
All surplus of operating funds at the end of the fiscal year
shall be appropriated during the ensuing two fiscal [year] years
by the General Assembly.
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