PRINTER'S NO. 798
No. 734 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY SHUMAKER, HOPPER, PUNT, LINCOLN, REGOLI, BELAN,
REIBMAN, PETERSON, MADIGAN, BODACK, JUBELIRER, ROSS,
PORTERFIELD, O'PAKE, GREENWOOD, BELL, SHAFFER, WILLIAMS,
HOLL, MELLOW, LEWIS, RHOADES, WILT, FATTAH, STAPLETON, JONES,
SALVATORE, PECORA, BRIGHTBILL, FISHER, HESS, ANDREZESKI,
STOUT, AFFLERBACH, LEMMOND, CORMAN, HELFRICK, WENGER, LOEPER,
BAKER AND DAWIDA, MARCH 21, 1989
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, MARCH 21, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," increasing the amount of the
6 Commonwealth's share of community college costs.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 1913-A(b) of the act of March 10, 1949
10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949,
11 amended October 20, 1988 (P.L.827, No.110), is amended to read:
12 Section 1913-A. Financial Program; Reimbursement or
13 Payments.--* * *
14 (b) (1) The Commonwealth shall pay to a community college
15 on behalf of the sponsor on account of its operating costs
16 during the fiscal year from funds appropriated for that purpose
17 an amount equal to one-third of such college's approved
1 operating costs not to exceed [three thousand dollars ($3,000)]
2 three thousand three hundred dollars ($3,300) per student
3 multiplied by the number of equivalent full-time students
4 determined by an audit to be made in a manner prescribed by the
5 State Board of Education.
6 (2) In addition, the Commonwealth shall pay to a community
7 college, on account of its operating costs for all equivalent
8 full-time students enrolled in the following categories of two-
9 year or less than two-year occupational or technical programs, a
10 stipend as follows:
11 (i) One thousand one hundred dollars ($1,100) per full-time
12 equivalent student enrolled in advanced technology programs.
13 Advanced technology programs are programs using new or advanced
14 technologies which hold promise for creating new job
15 opportunities, including such fields as robotics, biotechnology,
16 specialized materials and engineering and engineering-related
17 programs.
18 (ii) One thousand dollars ($1,000) per full-time equivalent
19 student enrolled in programs designated as Statewide programs. A
20 Statewide program is a program which meets one or more of the
21 following criteria:
22 (A) Program enrollment from out-of-sponsor area is twenty
23 per cent or more of the enrollment for the program.
24 (B) A consortial arrangement exists with another community
25 college to cooperatively operate a program or share regions in
26 order to avoid unnecessary program duplication.
27 (iii) Five hundred dollars ($500) per full-time equivalent
28 student enrolled in other occupational or technical programs.
29 (3) The Secretary of Education annually shall establish
30 criteria to be used to determine eligibility of programs for
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1 each of the above stipend categories, shall approve programs for
2 funding in the following fiscal year according to these criteria
3 and shall submit to chairmen of the committees of education in
4 the House of Representatives and Senate a report setting forth
5 the established criteria, any programs approved for funding
6 under these criteria and the recipient community colleges.
7 (4) Each community college shall maintain such accounting
8 and student attendance records on generally accepted principles
9 and standards as will lend themselves to satisfactory audit. The
10 Commonwealth shall pay to a community college on behalf of the
11 sponsor on account of its capital expenses an amount equal to
12 one-half of such college's annual capital expenses from funds
13 appropriated for that purpose to the extent that said capital
14 expenses have been approved as herein provided.
15 (5) For purposes of determining Commonwealth reimbursement
16 of operating costs, Federally funded expenditures for those
17 programs in which the Commonwealth participates in the cost
18 shall be deducted from total operating expenditures to determine
19 net reimbursable operating costs.
20 * * *
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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