PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1428 PRINTER'S NO. 1607
No. 1267 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY MR. McCLATCHY, MAY 14, 1979
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
MAY 30, 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:
1 (1) For educational and general expenses..... $87,673,000 <--
2 $89,343,000
3 (2) For cost of student aid.................. 1,760,000
4 (3) For cost of agricultural research........ 9,685,000
5 (4) For cost of agricultural extension
6 services................................. 8,196,000
7 (5) For cost of research..................... 8,138,000
8 (6) For cost of soil survey.................. 100,000
9 (7) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine
10 only..................................... 2,896,000
11 Section 2. Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
12 account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
13 section 1 except for instruction - Doctor of Medicine shall be
14 made on the basis of costs during the fiscal year.
15 Payments for instruction - Doctor of Medicine shall be made
16 on the basis of full-time students enrollment at a rate not to
17 exceed $7,465 per student.
18 Section 3. If necessary, the Pennsylvania State University
19 may transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1,
20 clauses (1), (2), (3) (4) and (5): Provided, That the aggregate
21 amount transferred into or out of each appropriation during the
22 fiscal year shall not exceed 5% of the amount specifically
23 appropriated for that purpose.
24 Section 4. Payments to the Pennsylvania State University of
25 the appropriations herein provided shall be made monthly during
26 the fiscal year.
27 Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with the
28 provisions of sections 2 and 3, on the basis of estimated costs
29 and full-time students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine
30 program. The estimate of costs shall be submitted by the
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1 Pennsylvania State University to the Secretary of Education, the
2 General Assembly and to the State Treasurer not later than 30
3 days prior to the date on which such payment is to be made.
4 Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of the General
5 Appropriation Act of 1979 relating to the payment of retirement
6 expenses, the Trustees of the Pennsylvania State University
7 shall make all required payments to the State Employees'
8 Retirement Fund from the funds appropriated pursuant to this
9 act.
10 Section 6. The Pennsylvania State University shall apply the
11 moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes as are
12 permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
13 records showing the application of such moneys. Not later than
14 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
15 relates, the Pennsylvania State University shall file with the
16 Secretary of Education, the General Assembly, and with the
17 Auditor General of the Commonwealth, a statement setting forth
18 the amounts and purposes of all expenditures made from moneys
19 appropriated by this act and other university accounts during
20 said fiscal year, the number of full-time students enrolled in
21 the Doctor of Medicine program and costs, as provided in
22 sections 2 and 3, used as a basis for receipt of any
23 appropriation during said fiscal year.
24 Such statement of expenditures and number of full-time
25 students enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program and costs
26 shall be reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth,
27 and he shall have the right, in respect to the moneys
28 appropriated by this act, to audit and disallow expenditures
29 made for purposes not permitted by this act and to cause such
30 sums to be recovered and paid by the Pennsylvania State
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1 University to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. The Auditor
2 General shall also make a determination of full-time students
3 enrolled in the Doctor of Medicine program and costs and make a
4 certification as to their correctness. In respect to
5 expenditures made by the university from moneys other than those
6 appropriated by this act, the Auditor General shall have the
7 right to review only and he shall file annually with the General
8 Assembly such information concerning such expenditures as the
9 General Assembly or any of its committees may require.
10 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
11 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
12 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
13 except the Doctor of Medicine program. Each such report, to be
14 submitted prior to October 1, 1980, shall cover the 12-month
15 period beginning September 1, 1979 and shall include for each
16 term during the period:
17 (1) The following counts and distributions:
18 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
19 full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
20 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
21 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
22 enrolled in graduate courses, and of part-time students enrolled
23 in undergraduate courses.
24 (ii) A distribution of faculty members employed part-time by
25 the percentage of full-time employment.
26 (iii) Total numbers of undergraduate student credit hours,
27 divided into lower division and upper division course levels,
28 and of graduate student credit hours divided into three course
29 levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
30 (iv) Number of different courses scheduled by level of
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1 instruction and the number of students receiving individual
2 instruction at each level of instruction.
3 (v) Number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
4 (2) Two classifications: one, a classification of faculty
5 members or other professional employees by title including:
6 professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor,
7 lecturer, research associate, librarian and academic
8 administrator; faculty members or other professional employees
9 under each title to be subdivided by type of assignment:
10 instructional or noninstructional divided into teaching and
11 nonteaching, and each such set of faculty members or other
12 professional employees to be further subdivided by type of
13 employment: full-time or part-time; and two, a classification of
14 faculty members and other professional employees by school and
15 department to be subdivided by type of assignment: instructional
16 or noninstructional divided into teaching and nonteaching, and
17 each such set of faculty members or other professional employees
18 to be further subdivided by type of employment: full-time or
19 part-time; and the following aggregates for each subdivision in
20 each classification:
21 (i) The number.
22 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
23 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
24 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
25 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
26 (iii) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit
27 hours and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
28 generated; divided into lower division, upper division,
29 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
30 (iv) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
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1 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
2 student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
3 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
4 levels.
5 (v) Total salary paid.
6 (vi) Total salary paid from college or university funds.
7 (vii) Total salary paid from Federal funds.
8 (viii) Total salary paid from other funds.
9 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
10 member employed full-time identified by school, department and
11 title:
12 An analysis of the average hours per week spent in college or
13 university-related activities, stating specifically hours spent
14 in undergraduate classroom contact and graduate classroom
15 contact, hours spent in preparation, hours spent in research and
16 hours spent in public service.
17 Section 8. In addition to the above requirements relative to
18 this appropriation, each report covering the 12-month period
19 beginning September 1, 1979, shall include for all programs of
20 the university:
21 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
22 degree and for a master's degree.
23 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
24 professional degrees, and doctoral degrees awarded in 1977,
25 1978, 1979 and estimated 1980.
26 The university shall report its revenues and expenditures and
27 present its financial statements required under the provisions
28 of this act in accordance with "Higher Education Finance Manual"
29 (1975).
30 SECTION 9. ALL INCREASES IN THIS APPROPRIATION IN EXCESS OF <--
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1 A 5% INCREASE OVER THE PREVIOUS NONPREFERRED APPROPRIATION FOR
2 THIS INSTITUTION SHALL BE USED FOR MAINTAINING CURRENT STUDENT
3 TUITION COSTS, AND ONLY BE UTILIZED ON FUNDING CURRENT EXISTING
4 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OR DIRECT STUDENT EDUCATIONAL RELATED COSTS.
5 THESE MONEYS MAY NOT BE USED TO FUND ANY INCREASE IN
6 ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL, NEW PROGRAMS, OR NONACADEMIC
7 EXPENDITURES. THE ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF THE
8 INSTITUTION SHALL PRODUCE THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING OF THESE
9 EXPENDITURES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY JUNE 30, 1980 FOR THE
10 FIRST NINE MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 1979 TO JUNE 30,
11 1980.
12 Section 9 10. The university shall provide such information <--
13 as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and
14 in such form and manner as the Department of Education may
15 prescribe.
16 Section 10 11. The Pennsylvania State University shall <--
17 report its revenues and expenditures and present its financial
18 statements required under the provisions of this act in
19 accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
20 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in "Higher
21 Education Finance Manual" United States Department of Health,
22 Education and Welfare (1975) with the exceptions set forth in
23 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State
24 Related Universities, Phase I, Fiscal Year 1979-1980. Credits
25 granted for nontraditional programs such as CLEP, lifelong
26 learning etc., including all related costs and revenues thereof
27 shall be excluded from the function of "Instruction" and
28 included under "Public Service."
29 Section 11 12. In addition to the requirements of section 7, <--
30 the Pennsylvania State University shall, by March 1, 1980,
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1 submit to the Appropriations and Education Committees of the
2 Senate and the House of Representatives a breakdown of the funds
3 budgeted for this fiscal year for the main campus and each
4 branch campus including expenditures budgeted from this act and
5 expenditures budgeted from moneys other than those appropriated
6 by this act.
7 Section 12 13. This act shall take effect July 1, 1979. <--
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