PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 817 PRINTER'S NO. 1346
No. 754 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY FUMO, MARCH 26, 1993
SENATOR FUMO, APPROPRIATIONS, RE-REPORTED AS AMENDED,
MAY 26, 1993
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 The
18 Pennsylvania State University for the fiscal year July 1, 1993,
19 to June 30, 1994, for the purposes and in the amounts as shown:
1 (1) For educational and general expenses...... $189,319,000
2 (2) For medical education..................... 9,084,000
3 (3) For the Central Pennsylvania Psychiatric
4 Institute......................................... 1,568,000
5 (4) For the cost of agricultural research..... 17,869,000 <--
6 (4) FOR THE COST OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH..... 18,300,000 <--
7 (5) For cost of agricultural extension
8 services.......................................... 19,787,000
9 (6) To enhance the recruitment and retention
10 of disadvantaged students......................... 312,000
11 (7) For the Pennsylvania College of
12 Technology........................................ 9,186,000
13 (8) For debt service related to the former
14 Williamsport Area Community College............... 1,597,000
15 Section 2. Payments to The Pennsylvania State University on
16 account of the appropriations for all items as provided in
17 section 1 shall be made on the basis of costs during the fiscal
18 year.
19 Section 3. If necessary, The Pennsylvania State University
20 may transfer funds among the appropriations listed in section
21 1(1), (3) and (4), provided that the aggregate amount
22 transferred into or out of each appropriation during the fiscal
23 year shall not exceed 5% of the amount specifically appropriated
24 for that purpose.
25 Section 4. (a) Payments to The Pennsylvania State
26 University of the appropriations provided in section 1 shall be
27 made monthly during the fiscal year.
28 (b) Such monthly payments shall be made in accordance with
29 the provisions of section 2 on the basis of estimated costs. The
30 estimate of costs shall be submitted by The Pennsylvania State
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1 University to the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly
2 and the State Treasurer not later than 30 days prior to the date
3 on which such payment is to be made.
4 Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of the General
5 Appropriation Act of 1993 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. (a) The Pennsylvania State University shall
11 apply the moneys appropriated by this act only for such purposes
12 as are permitted in this act and shall at all times maintain
13 proper records showing the application of such moneys. Not later
14 than 120 days after the close of the fiscal year to which this
15 act relates, The Pennsylvania State University shall file, with
16 the Secretary of Education, the General Assembly and the Auditor
17 General of the Commonwealth, a statement setting forth the
18 amounts and purposes of all expenditures made from moneys
19 appropriated by this act and other university accounts during
20 said fiscal year, as provided in section 2, used as a basis for
21 receipt of any appropriation during said fiscal year.
22 (b) Such statement of expenditures and costs shall be
23 reviewed by the Auditor General of the Commonwealth, and he
24 shall have the right, in respect to the moneys appropriated by
25 this act, to audit and disallow expenditures made for purposes
26 not permitted by this act and to cause such sums to be recovered
27 and paid by The Pennsylvania State University to the State
28 Treasurer. In respect to expenditures made by the university
29 from moneys other than those appropriated by this act, the
30 Auditor General shall have the right to review only, and he
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1 shall file annually with the General Assembly such information
2 concerning such expenditures as the General Assembly or any of
3 its committees may require.
4 Section 7. A report shall be submitted to the Governor and
5 the Appropriations and Education Committees of the Senate and
6 House of Representatives and shall include data for all programs
7 except the Doctor of Medicine program. The report, to be
8 submitted prior to September 1, 1994, shall cover the 12-month
9 period beginning with the summer term 1993 and shall include:
10 (1) The following counts and distributions for each term
11 during the period:
12 (i) The definitions and numbers of faculty members employed
13 full time, of faculty members employed part time, of full-time
14 students enrolled in graduate courses, of full-time students
15 enrolled in undergraduate courses, of part-time students
16 enrolled in graduate courses and of part-time students enrolled
17 in undergraduate courses.
18 (ii) The total numbers of undergraduate student credit
19 hours, divided into lower division and upper division course
20 levels, and of graduate student credit hours, divided into three
21 course levels--master's, first professional and doctoral.
22 (iii) The number of different courses scheduled by level of
23 instruction and the number of sections of individual instruction
24 scheduled by level of instruction, each further subdivided by
25 two-digit Classification of Instructional Program (CIP)
26 categories of instructional programs of higher education as
27 defined by the National Center for Education Statistics, United
28 States Department of Education.
29 (iv) The number of terms scheduled and the dates thereof.
30 (2) For the summer term and the following academic year in
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1 total and for each two-digit CIP program category, a
2 classification of faculty members or other professional
3 employees by title, including: professor, associate professor,
4 assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, research associate,
5 librarian and academic administrator; faculty members or other
6 professional employees under each title to be subdivided by type
7 of assignment: teaching and nonteaching; and each such set of
8 faculty members or other professional employees to be further
9 subdivided by type of employment: full-time or part-time; and
10 the following aggregates for each such subdivided
11 classification:
12 (i) The number of faculty and other professional employees
13 and their full-time equivalence in instructional and
14 noninstructional functions.
15 (ii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate classroom
16 courses and the sum of credits assigned to graduate classroom
17 courses taught, divided into lower division, upper division,
18 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
19 (iii) The sum of credits assigned to undergraduate
20 individual instruction courses and the sum of credits assigned
21 to graduate individual instruction courses taught, divided into
22 lower division, upper division, master's, first professional and
23 doctoral course levels.
24 (iv) The sum of undergraduate classroom student credit hours
25 and the sum of graduate classroom student credit hours
26 generated, divided into lower division, upper division,
27 master's, first professional and doctoral course levels.
28 (v) The sum of undergraduate individual instruction student
29 credit hours and the sum of graduate individual instruction
30 student credit hours generated, divided into lower division,
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1 upper division, master's, first professional and doctoral course
2 levels.
3 (vi) The total salary paid for instructional functions and
4 for noninstructional functions and the amount of this salary
5 paid for each of these functions from university funds, Federal
6 funds and other funds.
7 (3) For each term of the period covered for each faculty
8 member employed full time identified by two-digit CIP program
9 category and title, the report shall contain an analysis of the
10 average hours per week spent in university-related activities,
11 stating specifically hours spent in undergraduate classroom
12 contact and graduate classroom contact, hours spent in
13 preparation, hours spent in research and hours spent in public
14 service.
15 Section 8. In addition to the requirements in section 7
16 relative to this appropriation, the report covering the 12-month
17 period beginning with the summer term 1993 shall include for all
18 programs of the university:
19 (1) Minimum number of credits required for a baccalaureate
20 degree and for a master's degree.
21 (2) Number of bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, first
22 professional degrees and doctoral degrees awarded in 1991, 1992,
23 1993 and estimated 1994.
24 Section 9. The Pennsylvania State University shall provide
25 full, complete and accurate information as may be required by
26 the Department of Education or the majority chairman or the
27 minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate
28 or the majority chairman or the minority chairman of the
29 Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.
30 Section 10. The Pennsylvania State University shall report
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1 its revenues and expenditures and present its financial
2 statements required under the provisions of this act in
3 accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
4 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in the
5 "Higher Education Finance Manual, United States Department of
6 Health, Education and Welfare (1975)" and the "Commonwealth of
7 Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for the State System of Higher
8 Education, State-Related Universities and Non-State-Related
9 Colleges and Universities."
10 Section 11. This act shall take effect July 1, 1993, or
11 immediately, whichever is later.
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