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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1623 Session of 1979


        INTRODUCED BY MR. McCLATCHY, JULY 10, 1979

        AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, AS AMENDED, HOUSE
           OF REPRESENTATIVES, JULY 11, 1979

                                     AN ACT

     1  Providing additional funds to several agencies of the Executive
     2     Department for bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the
     3     close of the fiscal period ending June 30, 1979.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
     7  necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the General
     8  Fund to the several hereinafter named agencies of the Executive,
     9  Legislative and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth for the
    10  payment of salaries, wages or other compensation and travel
    11  expense of the duly elected or appointed officers and employees
    12  of the Commonwealth, for payment of fees of contractual services
    13  rendered, for the purchase or rental of goods, services,
    14  printing, equipment, land and buildings and for the payment of
    15  any other expenses, as provided by law or by this act, necessary
    16  for the proper conduct of the duties, functions and activities
    17  and for the purposes hereinafter set forth for the fiscal period
    18  beginning July 1, 1979 and for the payment of bills incurred and

     1  remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal period ending June
     2  30, 1979.
     3                      I.  EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
     4                   To the Department of Education
     5     For the operation, maintenance and admin-
     6  istration of the State colleges and State-owned
     7  university including the McKeever Environmental
     8  Center...........................................    $2,759,000
     9     For the payments to school districts on
    10  account of annual rental or sinking fund charges
    11  on school buildings..............................     4,500,000
    12     For payments to school districts and inter-
    13  mediate units on account of pupil transportation.     3,313,000
    14     FOR PAYMENTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND INTER-                    <--
    15  MEDIATE UNITS ON ACCOUNT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION OF
    16  EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS...........    10,000,000
    17     For payment for tuition to school districts
    18  providing education to nonresident orphaned
    19  children placed in private homes by the court
    20  and nonresident inmates of children's institu-
    21  tions............................................     1,908,000
    22     For payment into the Social Security Contribu-
    23  tion Fund the Commonwealth's share of Federal
    24  Social Security taxes for public school
    25  employees........................................     2,300,000
    26     For payment of required contribution into the
    27  contingent reserve and supplemental accounts of
    28  the Public School Employees' Retirement Fund.....    12,495,000
    29               To the Department of General Services
    30     For Harristown utility and municipal charges..      $620,000
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     1                    To the Department of Justice
     2     For legal services............................       $13,000
     3     For Commonwealth collections..................        18,000
     4     For the operation, maintenance and adminis-
     5  tration of the State correctional institutions
     6  and community treatment centers..................       679,000
     7     For the operation and administration of the
     8  Bureau of Consumer Protection....................        10,000
     9         To the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
    10     For the salaries, wages and all necessary
    11  expenses for the proper administration of the
    12  Board of Probation and Parole for reintegration
    13  of offenders.....................................       130,000
    14                To the Department of Public Welfare
    15     For the operation, maintenance and administra-
    16  tion of the State institutions for the mentally
    17  ill and the mentally retarded....................   $16,400,000
    18     For medical assistance payments...............    25,000,000
    19     For public nursing home payments..............     4,646,000
    20     For payment to private nursing homes for
    21  skilled nursing care and intermediate care for
    22  persons eligible for medical assistance services.     6,991,000
    23     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1979.





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