PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2785                      PRINTER'S NO. 2919

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2052 Session of 1984


        INTRODUCED BY PIEVSKY, APRIL 25, 1984

        AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
           MAY 8, 1984

                                  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 appropriated to the Trustees of
    18  Pennsylvania State University for the fiscal year July 1, 1984
    19  to June 30, 1985 for the purposes and in the amounts as shown:


     1     (1)  For educational and general expenses and
     2  for participation by a representative of the
     3  institution, appointed by the chief executive
     4  officer thereof, as a member of the Pennsylvania
     5  Academic Commission on Technological Development,
     6  a commission for Inter-institutional communication
     7  regarding technological innovation and development
     8  and for dissemination of information on such
     9  matters to the Pennsylvania business community and
    10  others who may use such information for new
    11  business and job development in Pennsylvania, such
    12  commission to be composed of representatives of
    13  every State-owned or State-related educational or
    14  scientific institution receiving general fund
    15  assistance from the Commonwealth..................  $118,557,000
    16     (2)  For cost of research......................    10,627,000
    17     (3)  For instruction - Doctor of Medicine only.     3,381,000
    18     (4)  For cost of agricultural research.........    12,647,000
    19     (5)  For cost of agricultural extension
    20  services..........................................    10,702,000
    21     (6)  For the cost of operating Elizabethtown
    22  Hospital..........................................     3,561,000
    23     (7)  For cost of soil survey...................       100,000
    24     (8)  To enhance recruitment and retention of
    25  disadvantaged students............................       200,000
    26     (9)  For the purchase of services from the
    27  Buhl-Henderson Community Library of Sharon,
    28  Pennsylvania......................................        25,000
    29     (10)  For research into and operation of an
    30  oilfired boiler converted to coal-slurry..........       600,000
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     1     (11)  FOR ANIMAL HEALTH DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY AND                <--
     2  RESEARCH..........................................       750,000
     3     (12)  FOR AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION STATEWIDE
     4  COMPUTER SYSTEM NETWORK...........................     2,000,000
     5     Section 2.  Payments to Pennsylvania State University on
     6  account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
     7  section 1 shall be made on the basis of costs during the fiscal
     8  year.
     9     Section 3.  If necessary, Pennsylvania State University may
    10  transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section 1(1),
    11  (2), (3) (4), (5) and (6): Provided, That the aggregate amount    <--
    12  transferred into or out of each appropriation during the fiscal
    13  year shall not exceed 5% of the amount specifically appropriated
    14  for that purpose.
    15     Section 4.  (a)  Payments to Pennsylvania State University of
    16  the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be made monthly
    17  during the fiscal year.
    18     (b)  Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
    19  the provisions of section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The
    20  estimate of costs shall be submitted by Pennsylvania State
    21  University to the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly
    22  and the State Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the date
    23  on which such payment is to be made.
    24     Section 5.  Notwithstanding any provision of the General
    25  Appropriation Act of 1984 relating to the payment of retirement
    26  expenses, the Trustees of Pennsylvania State University shall
    27  make all required payments to the State Employees' Retirement
    28  Fund from the funds appropriated pursuant to this act.
    29     Section 6.  (a)  Pennsylvania State University shall apply
    30  the moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes as
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     1  are permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain proper
     2  records showing the application of such moneys. Not later than
     3  120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this act
     4  relates, Pennsylvania State University shall file with the
     5  Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the Auditor
     6  General of the Commonwealth a statement setting forth the
     7  amounts and purposes of all expenditures made from moneys
     8  appropriated by this act and other university accounts during
     9  said fiscal year as provided in section 2 used as a basis for
    10  receipt of any appropriation during said fiscal year.
    11     (b)  Such statement of expenditures and costs shall be
    12  reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth, and he
    13  shall have the right, in respect to the moneys appropriated by
    14  this act, to audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes
    15  not permitted by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered
    16  and paid by Pennsylvania State University to the State
    17  Treasurer. In respect to expenditures made by the university
    18  from moneys other than those appropriated by this act, the
    19  Auditor General shall have the right to review only and he shall
    20  file annually with the General Assembly such information
    21  concerning such expenditures as the General Assembly or any of
    22  its committees may require.
    23     Section 7.  A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
    24  the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
    25  House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
    26  except the Doctor of Medicine program. The report, to be
    27  submitted prior to September 1, 1985, shall cover the 12-month
    28  period beginning with the summer term 1984 and shall include:
    29     (1)  The following counts and distributions for each term
    30  during the period:
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     1     (i)  The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
     2  full-time, of faculty members employed part-time, of full-time
     3  students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
     4  enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
     5  enrolled in graduate courses, and of part-time students enrolled
     6  in undergraduate courses.
     7     (ii)  The total numbers of undergraduate student credit
     8  hours, divided into lower division and upper division course
     9  levels, and of graduate student credit hours divided into three
    10  course levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
    11     (iii)  The number of different courses scheduled by level of
    12  instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
    13  scheduled by level of instruction, each further subdivided by
    14  two-digit Classification of Instructional Program (CIP)
    15  categories of instructional programs of higher education as
    16  defined by the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S.
    17  Department of Education.
    18     (iv)  The number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
    19     (2)  For the summer term and the following academic year in
    20  total and for each two-digit CIP program category, a
    21  classification of faculty members or other professional
    22  employees by title including: professor, associate professor,
    23  assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
    24  librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
    25  professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
    26  of assignment: teaching and nonteaching, and each such set of
    27  faculty members or other professional employees to be further
    28  subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time and the
    29  following aggregates for each such subdivided classification:
    30     (i)  The number of faculty and other professional employees
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     1  and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
     2  noninstructional functions.
     3     (ii)  The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
     4  courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
     5  courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
     6  master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
     7     (iii)  The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
     8  individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
     9  to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
    10  lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
    11  doctoral course levels.
    12     (iv)  The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
    13  and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
    14  generated; divided into lower division, upper division,
    15  master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
    16     (v)  The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
    17  credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
    18  student credit hours generated; divided into lower division,
    19  upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
    20  levels.
    21     (vi)  The total salary paid for instructional functions and
    22  for noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary
    23  paid for each of these functions from university funds, Federal
    24  funds and other funds.
    25     (3)  For each term of the period covered for each faculty
    26  member employed full-time identified by two-digit CIP program
    27  category and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the
    28  average hours per week spent in university-related activities,
    29  stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate classroom
    30  contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
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     1  preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
     2  service.
     3     Section 8.  In addition to the requirements in section 7
     4  relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
     5  period beginning with the summer term 1984 shall include for all
     6  programs of the university:
     7     (1)  Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
     8  degree and for a master's degree.
     9     (2)  Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
    10  professional degrees, and doctoral degrees awarded in 1982,
    11  1983, 1984 and estimated 1985.
    12     Section 9.  Pennsylvania State University shall provide such
    13  information as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of
    14  this act and in such form and manner as the Department of
    15  Education may prescribe.
    16     Section 10.  Pennsylvania State University shall report its
    17  revenues and expenditures and present its financial statements
    18  required under the provisions of this act in accordance with
    19  generally accepted accounting principles and procedures for
    20  educational institutions as set forth in "Higher Education
    21  Finance Manual" United States Department of Health, Education
    22  and Welfare (1975) with the exceptions set forth in the
    23  "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for State
    24  Related Universities, Phase I, Fiscal Year 1982-1983." 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.  In addition to the requirements of section 7,     <--
    30  Pennsylvania State University shall, by March 1, 1985, submit to
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     1  the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
     2  the House of Representatives a breakdown of the funds budgeted
     3  for this fiscal year for the main campus and each branch campus
     4  including expenditures budgeted from this act and expenditures
     5  budgeted from moneys other than those appropriated by this act.
     6     Section 12 11.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1984 or,    <--
     7  if enacted subsequent to that date, then immediately.
















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