SENATE AMENDED
        PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1301, 1306               PRINTER'S NO. 1541

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1169 Session of 1995


        INTRODUCED BY PITTS AND EVANS, MARCH 14, 1995

        SENATOR TILGHMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
           APRIL 18, 1995

                                     AN ACT

     1  Making appropriations from a restricted revenue account within
     2     the General Fund and from Federal augmentation funds to the
     3     Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

     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 specifically appropriated from the restricted
     8  revenue account within the General Fund and from Federal
     9  augmentation funds to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
    10  to provide for the operation of the commission for the fiscal
    11  year July 1, 1995, to June 30, 1996, for the purposes and in the
    12  amounts shown:
    13                                            Federal          State
    14         (1)  For the salaries, wages
    15     and all necessary expenses for the
    16     proper operation and administration
    17     of the Pennsylvania Public Utility

     1     Commission, including the chairman
     2     and commissioners and the Bureau of
     3     Safety and Enforcement.
     4             State appropriation........               $38,121,000  <--
     5             STATE APPROPRIATION........               $36,757,000  <--
     6             (i)  The following Federal
     7         augmentation amounts, or as
     8         much thereof as may be
     9         necessary, are specifically
    10         appropriated to supplement the
    11         sum authorized to be billed to
    12         utilities for the operation of
    13         the commission:
    14                 (A)  "Natural Gas
    15             Pipeline Safety" - To
    16             enforce the regulations of
    17             the Natural Gas Pipeline
    18             Safety Act.
    19             Federal appropriation......   190,000
    20     Any Federal funds which the
    21  Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
    22  receives pursuant to these
    23  appropriations shall not be credited
    24  to any utility nor used to lower the
    25  annual assessment of any utility.
    26     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1995, or
    27  immediately, whichever is later.


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