PRINTER'S NO. 1428
No. 1267 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY McCLATCHY, MAY 14, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MAY 14, 1979
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 for carrying the same into
5 effect, providing for a basis for payments of such
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. In order to carry into effect the act of
11 Congress, approved July 2, 1862, granting public land to the
12 several states for educational purposes, and subsequent acts of
13 Congress related thereto, and the act of the General Assembly of
14 Pennsylvania accepting the provisions and conditions of said
15 acts of Congress and pledging the faith of the State to carry
16 the same into effect, the following sums or as much thereof as
17 may be necessary are hereby specifically appropriated to the
18 Trustees of the Pennsylvania State University for the fiscal
19 year July 1, 1979 to June 30, 1980, for the purposes and in the
20 amounts as shown:
21 (1) For educational and general expenses..... $87,673,000
1 (2) For cost of student aid.................. 1,760,000
2 (3) For cost of agricultural research........ 9,685,000
3 (4) For cost of agricultural extension
4 services................................. 8,196,000
5 (5) For cost of research..................... 8,138,000
6 (6) For cost of soil survey.................. 100,000
7 (7) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine
8 only..................................... 2,896,000
9 Section 2. Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
10 account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
11 section 1 except for instruction - Doctor of Medicine shall be
12 made on the basis of costs during the fiscal year.
13 Payments for instruction - Doctor of Medicine shall be made
14 on the basis of full-time students enrollment at a rate not to
15 exceed $7,465 per student.
16 Section 3. If necessary, the Pennsylvania State University
17 may transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1,
18 clauses (1), (2), (3) (4) and (5): Provided, That the aggregate
19 amount transferred into or out of each appropriation during the
20 fiscal year shall not exceed 5% of the amount specifically
21 appropriated for that purpose.
22 Section 4. Payments to the Pennsylvania State University of
23 the appropriations herein provided shall be made monthly during
24 the fiscal year.
25 Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with the
26 provisions of sections 2 and 3, on the basis of estimated costs
27 and full-time students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine
28 program. The estimate of costs shall be submitted by the
29 Pennsylvania State University to the Secretary of Education, the
30 General Assembly and to the State Treasurer not later than 30
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1 days prior to the date on which such payment is to be made.
2 Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of the General
3 Appropriation Act of 1979 relating to the payment of retirement
4 expenses, the Trustees of the Pennsylvania State University
5 shall make all required payments to the State Employees'
6 Retirement Fund from the funds appropriated pursuant to this
7 act.
8 Section 6. The Pennsylvania State University shall apply the
9 moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are
10 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
11 records showing the application of such moneys. Not later than
12 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
13 relates, the Pennsylvania State University shall file with the
14 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly, and with the
15 Auditor General of the Commonwealth, a statement setting forth
16 the amounts and purposes of all expenditures made from moneys
17 appropriated by this act and other university accounts during
18 said fiscal year, the number of full-time students enrolled in
19 the Doctor of Medicine program and costs, as provided in
20 sections 2 and 3, used as a basis for receipt of any
21 appropriation during said fiscal year.
22 Such statement of expenditures and number of full-time
23 students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program and costs
24 shall be reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth,
25 and he shall have the right, in respect to the moneys
26 appropriated by this act, to audit and disallow expenditures
27 made for purposes not permitted by this act and to cause such
28 sums to be recovered and paid by the Pennsylvania State
29 University to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. The Auditor
30 General shall also make a determination of full-time students
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1 enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program and costs and make a
2 certification as to their correctness. In respect to
3 expenditures made by the university from moneys other than those
4 appropriated by this act, the Auditor General shall have the
5 right to review only and he shall file annually with the General
6 Assembly such information concerning such expenditures as the
7 General Assembly or any of its committees may require.
8 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
9 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
10 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
11 except the Doctor of Medicine program. Each such report, to be
12 submitted prior to October 1, 1980, shall cover the 12-month
13 period beginning September 1, 1979 and shall include for each
14 term during the period:
15 (1) The following counts and distributions:
16 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
17 full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
18 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
19 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
20 enrolled in graduate courses, and of part-time students enrolled
21 in undergraduate courses.
22 (ii) A distribution of faculty members employed part-time by
23 the percentage of full-time employment.
24 (iii) Total numbers of undergraduate student credit hours,
25 divided into lower division and upper division course levels,
26 and of graduate student credit hours divided into three course
27 levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
28 (iv) Number of different courses scheduled by level of
29 instruction and the number of students receiving individual
30 instruction at each level of instruction.
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1 (v) Number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
2 (2) Two classifications: one, a classification of faculty
3 members or other professional employees by title including:
4 professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor,
5 lecturer, research associate, librarian and academic
6 administrator; faculty members or other professional employees
7 under each title to be subdivided by type of assignment:
8 instructional or noninstructional divided into teaching and
9 nonteaching, and each such set of faculty members or other
10 professional employees to be further subdivided by type of
11 employment: full-time or part-time; and two, a classification of
12 faculty members and other professional employees by school and
13 department to be subdivided by type of assignment: instructional
14 or noninstructional divided into teaching and nonteaching, and
15 each such set of faculty members or other professional employees
16 to be further subdivided by type of employment: full-time or
17 part-time; and the following aggregates for each subdivision in
18 each classification:
19 (i) The number.
20 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
21 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
22 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
23 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
24 (iii) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit
25 hours and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
26 generated; divided into lower division, upper division,
27 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
28 (iv) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
29 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
30 student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
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1 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
2 levels.
3 (v) Total salary paid.
4 (vi) Total salary paid from college or university funds.
5 (vii) Total salary paid from Federal funds.
6 (viii) Total salary paid from other funds.
7 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
8 member employed full-time identified by school, department and
9 title:
10 An analysis of the average hours per week spent in college or
11 university-related activities, stating specifically hours spent
12 in undergraduate classroom contact and graduate classroom
13 contact, hours spent in preparation, hours spent in research and
14 hours spent in public service.
15 Section 8. In addition to the above requirements relative to
16 this appropriation, each report covering the 12-month period
17 beginning September 1, 1979, shall include for all programs of
18 the university:
19 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
20 degree and for a master's degree.
21 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
22 professional degrees, and doctoral degrees awarded in 1977,
23 1978, 1979 and estimated 1980.
24 The university shall report its revenues and expenditures and
25 present its financial statements required under the provisions
26 of this act in accordance with "Higher Education Finance Manual"
27 (1975).
28 Section 9. The university shall provide such information as
29 may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and in
30 such form and manner as the Department of Education may
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1 prescribe.
2 Section 10. The Pennsylvania State University shall report
3 its revenues and expenditures and present its financial
4 statements required under the provisions of this act in
5 accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
6 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in "Higher
7 Education Finance Manual" United States Department of Health,
8 Education and Welfare (1975) with the exceptions set forth in
9 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State
10 Related Universities, Phase I, Fiscal Year 1979-1980. Credits
11 granted for nontraditional programs such as CLEP, lifelong
12 learning etc., including all related costs and revenues thereof
13 shall be excluded from the function of "Instruction" and
14 included under "Public Service."
15 Section 11. In addition to the requirements of section 7,
16 the Pennsylvania State University shall, by March 1, 1980,
17 submit to the Appropriations and Education Committees of the
18 Senate and the House of Representatives a breakdown of the funds
19 budgeted for this fiscal year for the main campus and each
20 branch campus including expenditures budgeted from this act and
21 expenditures budgeted from moneys other than those appropriated
22 by this act.
23 Section 12. This act shall take effect July 1, 1979.
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