PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1180, 1228, 1407, PRINTER'S NO. 1526
1510
No. 1023 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY PIEVSKY, MAY 24, 1983
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
JUNE 29, 1983
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of April 1, 1863 (P.L.213, No.227), entitled "An act
2 to accept the grant of Public Lands, by the United States, to
3 the several states, for the endowment of Agricultural
4 Colleges," making appropriations to Pennsylvania State
5 University; providing for a basis for payments of the
6 appropriations; and providing a method of accounting for the
7 funds appropriated.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
11 necessary, are hereby appropriated to the Trustees of
12 Pennsylvania State University, for the fiscal year July 1, 1983
13 to June 30, 1984, for the following purposes and amounts:
14 (1) For educational and general expenses..... $109,041,000 <--
15 (1) FOR EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL EXPENSES AND <--
16 FOR PARTICIPATION BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
17 INSTITUTION, APPOINTED BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
18 OFFICER THEREOF, AS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
19 ACADEMIC COMMISSION ON TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT,
20 A COMMISSION FOR INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICA-
1 TION REGARDING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND
2 DEVELOPMENT AND FOR DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
3 ON SUCH MATTERS TO THE PENNSYLVANIA BUSINESS
4 COMMUNITY AND OTHERS WHO MAY USE SUCH INFORMATION
5 FOR NEW BUSINESS AND JOB DEVELOPMENT IN PENNSYL-
6 VANIA, SUCH COMMISSION TO BE COMPOSED OF
7 REPRESENTATIVES OF EVERY STATE-OWNED OR STATE-
8 RELATED EDUCATIONAL OR SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION
9 RECEIVING GENERAL FUND ASSISTANCE FROM THE
10 COMMONWEALTH..................................... $109,041,000
11 (2) For cost of student aid.................. 1,760,000
12 (3) For cost of research..................... 9,932,000
13 (4) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine only 3,160,000
14 (5) For cost of agricultural research........ 11,820,000
15 (6) For cost of agricultural extension
16 services................................. 10,002,000
17 (7) For cost of operating Elizabethtown
18 Hospital................................. 3,328,000
19 (8) For cost of soil survey.................. 100,000
20 (9) To enhance the recruitment and
21 retention of disadvantaged students...... 200,000
22 (10) For the purchase of services
23 from the Buhl-Henderson Community
24 Library of Sharon, Pennsylvania.......... 25,000
25 Section 2. Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
26 account of the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be
27 made on the basis of costs during the fiscal year.
28 Section 3. If necessary, Pennsylvania State University may
29 transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1(1),
30 (2), (3), (5) and (6). The aggregate amount transferred into or
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1 out of each appropriation during the fiscal year shall not
2 exceed 5% of the amount specifically appropriated for that
3 purpose.
4 Section 4. (a) Payments to Pennsylvania State University of
5 the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be made monthly
6 during the fiscal year.
7 (b) The monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
8 section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The estimate of costs
9 shall be submitted by the Pennsylvania State University to the
10 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the State
11 Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the date on which the
12 payment is to be made.
13 Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of the General
14 Appropriation Act of 1983 relating to the payment of retirement
15 expenses, the Trustees of Pennsylvania State University shall
16 make all required payments to the State Employees' Retirement
17 Fund from the funds appropriated pursuant to this act.
18 Section 6. (a) Pennsylvania State University shall apply
19 the moneys appropriated by this act only for the purposes
20 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
21 records showing the application of the moneys. Not later than
22 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
23 relates, Pennsylvania State University shall file with the
24 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the Auditor
25 General a statement setting forth the amounts and purposes of
26 all expenditures made from moneys appropriated by this act and
27 other university accounts during the fiscal year, as provided in
28 section 2, used as a basis for receipt of any appropriation
29 during the fiscal year.
30 (b) The statement of expenditures and costs shall be
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1 reviewed by the Auditor General who has the right, in respect to
2 the moneys appropriated by this act, to audit and disallow
3 expenditures made for purposes not permitted by this act and to
4 cause such sums to be recovered and paid by Pennsylvania State
5 University to the State Treasurer. In respect to expenditures
6 made by the university from moneys other than those appropriated
7 by this act, the Auditor General has the right to review only
8 and shall file annually with the General Assembly any
9 information concerning these expenditures as the General
10 Assembly or any of its committees may require.
11 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
12 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
13 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
14 except the Doctor of Medicine program. The report, to be
15 submitted prior to September 1, 1984, shall cover the 12-month
16 period beginning with the summer term 1983 and shall include:
17 (1) The following counts and distributions for each term
18 during the period:
19 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
20 full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
21 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
22 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
23 enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
24 in undergraduate courses.
25 (ii) The total numbers of undergraduate student credit
26 hours, divided into lower division and upper division course
27 levels and of graduate student credit hours divided into three
28 course levels: master's, first professional and doctoral.
29 (iii) The number of different courses scheduled by level of
30 instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
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1 at each level of instruction.
2 (iv) The number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
3 (2) For the summer term and the following academic year in
4 total and for each two-digit Hegis category of instructional
5 programs in higher education as defined by the National Center
6 for Education Statistics, United States Department of Education,
7 a classification of faculty members or other professional
8 employees by title including: professor, associate professor,
9 assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
10 librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
11 professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
12 of assignment: teaching and nonteaching, with each set of
13 faculty members or other professional employees to be further
14 subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time and the
15 following aggregates for each subdivided classification:
16 (i) The number of faculty and other professional employees
17 and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
18 noninstructional functions.
19 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
20 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
21 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
22 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
23 (iii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
24 individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
25 to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
26 lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
27 doctoral course levels.
28 (iv) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
29 and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
30 generated; divided into lower division, upper division,
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1 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
2 (v) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
3 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
4 student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
5 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
6 levels.
7 (vi) The total salary paid for instructional functions and
8 for noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary
9 paid for each of these functions from college or university
10 funds, Federal funds and other funds.
11 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
12 member employed full-time identified by two-digit Hegis category
13 and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the average
14 hours per week spent in college or university-related
15 activities, stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate
16 classroom contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
17 preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
18 service.
19 Section 8. (a) In addition to the requirements in section 7
20 relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
21 period beginning with the summer term 1983 shall include for all
22 programs of the university:
23 (1) The minimum number of credits required for a
24 baccalaureate degree and for a master's degree.
25 (2) The number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees,
26 first professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1981,
27 1982, 1983 and estimated 1984.
28 (b) Pennsylvania State University shall report its revenues
29 and expenditures and present its financial statements required
30 under the provisions of this act in accordance with the "Higher
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1 Education Finance Manual of 1975."
2 Section 9. An additional report shall be submitted to the
3 Governor and the Appropriations and Education Committees of the
4 Senate and House of Representatives and shall include data which
5 indicates the increase in recruitment and retention activities
6 of the Pennsylvania State University relating to disadvantaged
7 students and the extent to which such activities have increased
8 or will increase disadvantaged student enrollment.
9 Section 10. Pennsylvania State University shall provide such
10 information as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of
11 this act and in the form and manner as the Department of
12 Education may prescribe.
13 Section 11. Pennsylvania State University shall report its
14 revenues and expenditures and present its financial statements
15 required under the provisions of this act in accordance with
16 generally accepted accounting principles and procedures for
17 educational institutions as set forth in the "Higher Education
18 Finance Manual of 1975," with the exceptions set forth in the
19 "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State
20 Related Universities, Phase I, Fiscal Year 1983-1984." Credits
21 granted for nontraditional programs such as CLEP, lifelong
22 learning etc., including all related costs and revenues thereof
23 shall be excluded from the function of "Instruction" and
24 included under "Public Service."
25 Section 12. This act shall take effect July 1, 1983 or, if
26 enacted subsequent to that date, then immediately.
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