PRINTER'S NO. 1924
No. 1445 Session of 1982
INTRODUCED BY TILGHMAN, MAY 14, 1982
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, MAY 14, 1982
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, 1982 to June 30, 1983, for the purposes and in the
20 amounts as shown:
1 (1) For educational and general expenses..... $104,848,000
2 (2) For cost of student aid.................. 1,760,000
3 (3) For cost of research..................... 9,550,000
4 (4) For instruction - Doctor of Medicine only 3,039,000
5 (5) For cost of agricultural research........ 11,366,000
6 (6) For cost of agricultural extension
7 services................................. 9,618,000
8 (7) For the cost of operating Elizabethtown
9 Hospital................................. 3,200,000
10 (8) For cost of soil survey.................. 100,000
11 Section 2. Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
12 account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
13 section 1 shall be made on the basis of costs during the fiscal
14 year.
15 Section 3. If necessary, the Pennsylvania State University
16 may transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1,
17 clauses (1), (2), (3), (5) and (6): Provided, That the aggregate
18 amount transferred into or out of each appropriation during the
19 fiscal year shall not exceed 5% of the amount specifically
20 appropriated for that purpose.
21 Section 4. (a) Payments to the Pennsylvania State
22 University of the appropriations herein provided shall be made
23 monthly during the fiscal year.
24 (b) Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
25 the provisions of section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The
26 estimate of costs shall be submitted by the Pennsylvania State
27 University to the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly
28 and to the State Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the
29 date on which such payment is to be made.
30 Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of the General
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1 Appropriation Act of 1982 relating to the payment of retirement
2 expenses, the trustees of the Pennsylvania State University
3 shall make all required payments to the State Employee's
4 Retirement Fund from the funds appropriated pursuant to this
5 act.
6 Section 6. (a) The Pennsylvania State University shall
7 apply the moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes
8 as are permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain
9 proper records showing the application of such moneys. Not later
10 than 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this
11 act relates, the Pennsylvania State University shall file with
12 the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and with the
13 Auditor General of the Commonwealth, a statement setting forth
14 the amounts and purposes of all expenditures made from moneys
15 appropriated by this act and other university accounts during
16 said fiscal year as provided in section 2 used as a basis for
17 receipt of any appropriation during said fiscal year.
18 (b) Such statement of expenditures and costs shall be
19 reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth, and he
20 shall have the right, in respect to the moneys appropriated by
21 this act, to audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes
22 not permitted by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered
23 and paid by the Pennsylvania State University to the Treasurer
24 of the Commonwealth. In respect to expenditures made by the
25 university from moneys other than those appropriated by this
26 act, the Auditor General shall have the right to review only and
27 he shall file annually with the General Assembly such
28 information concerning such expenditures as the General Assembly
29 or any of its committees may require.
30 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
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1 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
2 House of Representatives and shall include data for all
3 programs, except the Doctor of Medicine program. The report, to
4 be submitted prior to September 1, 1983, shall cover the 12-
5 month period beginning with the summer term 1982 and shall
6 include:
7 (1) The following counts and distributions for each term
8 during the period:
9 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
10 full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
11 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
12 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
13 enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
14 in undergraduate courses.
15 (ii) Total numbers of undergraduate student credit hours,
16 divided into lower division and upper division course levels and
17 of graduate student credit hours divided into three course
18 levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
19 (iii) Number of different courses scheduled by level of
20 instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
21 at each level of instruction.
22 (iv) Number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
23 (2) For the summer term and the following academic year in
24 total and for each two-digit Hegis category of instructional
25 programs in higher education as defined by the National Center
26 for Education Statistics, United States Department of Education,
27 a classification of faculty members or other professional
28 employees by title including: professor, associate professor,
29 assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
30 librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
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1 professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
2 of assignment: teaching and nonteaching, and each such set of
3 faculty members or other professional employees to be further
4 subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time and the
5 following aggregates for each such subdivided classification:
6 (i) The number of faculty and other professional employees
7 and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
8 noninstructional functions.
9 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
10 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
11 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
12 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
13 (iii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
14 individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
15 to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
16 lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
17 doctoral course levels.
18 (iv) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
19 and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
20 generated; divided into lower division, upper division,
21 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
22 (v) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
23 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
24 student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
25 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
26 levels.
27 (vi) Total salary paid for instructional functions and for
28 noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary paid
29 for each of these functions from college or university funds,
30 Federal funds and other funds.
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1 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
2 member employed full-time identified by two-digit Hegis category
3 and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the average
4 hours per week spent in college or university-related
5 activities, stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate
6 classroom contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
7 preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
8 service.
9 Section 8. (a) In addition to the above requirements
10 relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
11 period beginning with the summer term 1982, shall include for
12 all programs of the university:
13 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
14 degree and for a master's degree.
15 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
16 professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1980, 1981,
17 1982 and estimated 1983.
18 (b) The university shall report its revenues and
19 expenditures and present its financial statements required under
20 the provisions of this act in accordance with "Higher Education
21 Finance Manual" (1975).
22 Section 9. The university shall provide such information as
23 may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and in
24 such form and manner as the Department of Education may
25 prescribe.
26 Section 10. The Pennsylvania State University shall report
27 its revenues and expenditures and present its financial
28 statements required under the provisions of this act in
29 accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
30 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in "Higher
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1 Education Finance Manual" United States Department of Health
2 Education and Welfare (1975) with the exceptions set forth in
3 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State
4 Related Universities, Phase I, Fiscal Year 1982-1983. Credits
5 granted for nontraditional programs such as CLEP, lifelong
6 learning etc., including all related costs and revenues thereof
7 shall be excluded from the function of "Instruction" and
8 included under "Public Service."
9 Section 11. In addition to the requirements of section 7,
10 the Pennsylvania State University shall, by March 1, 1983,
11 submit to the Appropriations and Education Committees of the
12 Senate and the House of Representatives a breakdown of the funds
13 budgeted for this fiscal year for the main campus and each
14 branch campus including expenditures budgeted from this act and
15 expenditures budgeted from moneys other than those appropriated
16 by this act.
17 Section 12. This act shall take effect July 1, 1982.
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