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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1338

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1199 Session of 1997


        INTRODUCED BY HABAY, TRELLO, YOUNGBLOOD, HORSEY, ADOLPH, SHANER,
           WAUGH AND L. I. COHEN, APRIL 7, 1997

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, APRIL 7, 1997

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), entitled, as
     2     reenacted, "An act relating to alcoholic liquors, alcohol and
     3     malt and brewed beverages; amending, revising, consolidating
     4     and changing the laws relating thereto; regulating and
     5     restricting the manufacture, purchase, sale, possession,
     6     consumption, importation, transportation, furnishing, holding
     7     in bond, holding in storage, traffic in and use of alcoholic
     8     liquors, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages and the
     9     persons engaged or employed therein; defining the powers and
    10     duties of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board; providing
    11     for the establishment and operation of State liquor stores,
    12     for the payment of certain license fees to the respective
    13     municipalities and townships, for the abatement of certain
    14     nuisances and, in certain cases, for search and seizure
    15     without warrant; prescribing penalties and forfeitures;
    16     providing for local option, and repealing existing laws,"
    17     providing for transfer of moneys from The State Stores Fund.

    18     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    19  hereby enacts as follows:
    20     Section 1.  Section 802 of the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90,
    21  No.21), known as the Liquor Code, reenacted and amended June 29,
    22  1987 (P.L.32, No.14), is amended by adding a subsection to read:
    23     Section 802.  Moneys Paid Into The State Stores Fund for Use
    24  of the Commonwealth.--* * *
    25     (h)  The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) shall be

     1  transferred annually from The State Stores Fund in accordance
     2  with subsection (f) to the Educational Loan Assistance Fund for
     3  grants and loans to be made in accordance with the act of August
     4  7, 1963 (P.L.549, No.290), referred to as the Pennsylvania
     5  Higher Education Assistance Agency Act, beginning with the 1997-
     6  1998 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.
     7     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
















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