PRINTER'S NO. 3413

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2587 Session of 1980


        INTRODUCED BY YOHN, DOMBROWSKI AND MOEHLMANN, MAY 27, 1980

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MAY 27, 1980

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
     2     act relating to the public school system, including certain
     3     provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
     4     schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
     5     laws relating thereto," raising the authorized level for
     6     exemption from the per capita tax.

     7     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     8  hereby enacts as follows:
     9     Section 1.  Section 679, act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
    10  No.14), known as the "Public School Code of 1949," amended
    11  October 4, 1978 (P.L.943, No.184), is amended to read:
    12     Section 679.  Per Capita Taxes.--Each resident or inhabitant,
    13  over eighteen years of age, in every school district of the
    14  second, third, and fourth class, which shall levy such tax,
    15  shall annually pay, for the use of the school district in which
    16  he or she is a resident or inhabitant, a per capita tax of not
    17  less than one dollar nor more than five dollars, as may be
    18  assessed by the local school district. The tax collector shall
    19  not proceed against a spouse or his employer until he has


     1  pursued remedies against the delinquent taxpayer and the
     2  taxpayer's employer under this section.
     3     Each school district may exempt any person whose total income
     4  from all sources is less than [two thousand dollars] five
     5  thousand dollars  per annum from its per capita tax or any
     6  portion thereof. The school district may adopt and employ
     7  regulations for the processing of claims for the exemption.
     8     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.















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