PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 430 PRINTER'S NO. 800
No. 392 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY MR. PIEVSKY, MARCH 1, 1977
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 23, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), entitled
2 "An act concerning elections, including general, municipal,
3 special and primary elections, the nomination of candidates,
4 primary and election expenses and election contests; creating
5 and defining membership of county boards of elections;
6 imposing duties upon the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
7 courts, county boards of elections, county commissioners;
8 imposing penalties for violation of the act, and codifying,
9 revising and consolidating the laws relating thereto; and
10 repealing certain acts and parts of acts relating to
11 elections," providing for the appropriation of funds to
12 reimburse each city of the first class and EACH county for <--
13 expenses incurred in the issuance of military absentee
14 ballots.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. Clause (c) of section 305, act of June 3, 1937
18 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the "Pennsylvania Election Code,"
19 amended August 13, 1963 (P.L.707, No.379), is amended to read:
20 Section 305. Expenses of County Boards and of Primaries and
21 Elections to Be Paid by County; Expenses of Special Elections;
22 Boards to Be Provided with Offices.--
23 * * *
24 (c) The Commonwealth shall reimburse each city of the first
1 class and EACH county for election expenses incurred in and <--
2 incidental to preparing, handling, mailing, delivering, counting
3 and storing official absentee ballots requested by any elector
4 in military service, Federal employment overseas, Merchant
5 Marine, and in any religious group or welfare agency assisting
6 the Armed Forces, including spouses and dependents, and
7 bedridden and hospitalized veterans as herein provided in the
8 sum of forty cents (40¢) for each such ballot mailed or
9 delivered.
10 Each county board of elections shall file in the Department
11 of State, not later than thirty days after every election, on a
12 form prescribed by the Department of State, a statement of the
13 number of ballots mailed or delivered in such manner as is now
14 or may hereafter be provided by law to electors in actual
15 military service, Federal employment overseas, Merchant Marine,
16 and in any religious group or welfare agency assisting the Armed
17 Forces, including spouses and dependents, and to bedridden or
18 hospitalized veterans.
19 The Department of State shall ascertain and fix the amount
20 due, as herein provided, to each city of the first class and
21 EACH county for election expenses incurred, and by requisition <--
22 in the usual course shall provide for payment of such amounts so
23 found due. [from moneys appropriated to the Department of State
24 for such purpose, or shall prorate the moneys so appropriated
25 among the several cities of the first class and counties to be
26 reimbursed, if the amount so appropriated shall not be
27 sufficient for the payment in full to each city of the first
28 class and county of the amount found to be due.] As much of the
29 money, from time to time in the General Fund, as shall be deemed
30 necessary by the Governor is hereby appropriated to the
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1 Department of State to reimburse each city of the first class
2 and EACH county in accordance with the provisions of this <--
3 subsection.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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