PRINTER'S NO. 600
No. 576 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY DONOLOW, CIANFRANI, MURRAY, LAMB, NOSZKA,
AMMERMAN, HILL, MESSINGER, COPPERSMITH, HANKINS, MURPHY,
REIBMAN AND MELLOW, APRIL 20, 1971
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, APRIL 20, 1971
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of April 1, 1863 (P.L.213), entitled "An act to
2 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 meet the university and
5 State's share of retirement costs deficits for the 1970-71
6 fiscal year.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. In order to carry into effect the act of
10 Congress, approved July 2, 1862, granting public land to the
11 several states for educational purposes, and subsequent acts of
12 Congress related thereto, and the act of the General Assembly of
13 Pennsylvania accepting the provisions and conditions of said
14 acts of Congress and pledging the faith of the State to carry
15 the same into effect, the sum of thirty-two million two hundred
16 eighty-one thousand dollars ($32,281,000), or as much thereof as
17 may be necessary, is hereby specifically appropriated to the
18 Trustees of the Pennsylvania State University to meet the
19 university deficit caused by the failure to make the full
1 appropriation in the fiscal year 1970-71 because of insufficient
2 revenues, for the following purposes: Resident Education;
3 Continuing Education; Extension Services; Organized Research and
4 Special Departmental Research.
5 Section 2. The sum of two million three hundred thousand
6 dollars ($2,300,000), or as much thereof as may be necessary, is
7 hereby specifically appropriated to the Trustees of the
8 Pennsylvania State University to meet the State's share of
9 retirement costs deficit caused by the failure to make the full
10 appropriation in the fiscal year 1970-71 because of insufficient
11 revenues, for the State's share of retirement costs.
12 Section 3. Payments to the Pennsylvania State University of
13 the appropriations herein provided shall be made during the
14 1971-72 fiscal year as follows:
15 First payment on September 30, 1971
16 Second payment on December 31, 1971
17 Section 4. The Pennsylvania State University shall apply the
18 moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are
19 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
20 records showing the application of such moneys. Not later than
21 April 30, 1972, the Pennsylvania State University shall file
22 with the General Assembly and with the Auditor General of the
23 Commonwealth, a statement setting forth the amounts and purposes
24 of all expenditures made from moneys appropriated by this act
25 and other university accounts during the fiscal period for which
26 these appropriations are made. Such statement of expenditures
27 shall be reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth and
28 he shall have the right in respect to the moneys appropriated by
29 this act, to audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes
30 not permitted by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered
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1 and paid by the Pennsylvania State University to the Treasurer
2 of the Commonwealth. In respect to expenditures made by the
3 university from moneys other than those appropriated by this
4 act, the Auditor General shall have the right of review only,
5 and he shall file annually with the General Assembly such
6 information concerning said expenditures as the General Assembly
7 or any of its committees may require.
8 Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 1971.
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