PRINTER'S NO. 3251
No. 2425 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY STEELMAN, ARGALL, BEBKO-JONES, CHADWICK, DALEY,
FAIRCHILD, FLEAGLE, FLICK, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GORDNER,
GRUCELA, HARHAI, HESS, KENNEY, LUCYK, S. MILLER, NAILOR,
PESCI, PISTELLA, RAMOS, SCHULER, SOLOBAY, STABACK, TIGUE,
TRAVAGLIO, TRELLO, WILLIAMS, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND ZUG,
MARCH 22, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 22, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for a Boy and Girl Scouts of America
3 plate; and establishing the Scouting Fund.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 1361. Boy and Girl Scouts of America plate.
9 The department shall design a Boy and Girl Scouts of America
10 registration plate. Upon application of any person, accompanied
11 by a fee of $35 which shall be in addition to the annual
12 registration fee, the department shall issue the plate for a
13 passenger car or truck with a registered gross weight of not
14 more than 9,000 pounds. The Scouting Fund established in section
15 1905(d) (relating to payments to special funds) shall receive
16 $15 of the fee paid by the applicant for the plate.
1 Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
2 subsection to read:
3 § 1905. Payments to special funds.
4 * * *
5 (d) Scouting Fund.--Fifteen dollars of each fee received
6 under section 1361 (relating to Boy and Girl Scouts of America
7 plate) shall be credited to the Scouting Fund, as follows:
8 (1) There is hereby established a special account in the
9 Treasury Department which shall be known as the Scouting
10 Fund. The purpose of the Scouting Fund is to advance the
11 activities of the Boy and Girl Scouts of America by assisting
12 the councils of the Boy and Girl Scouts of America within
13 this Commonwealth.
14 (2) All moneys in the Scouting Fund are hereby annually
15 appropriated to the Department of Community and Economic
16 Development to be expended for the purposes of this
17 subsection.
18 (3) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this
19 subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the
20 Department of Community and Economic Development for his
21 approval.
22 (4) The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition
23 for expenditures by the Department of Community and Economic
24 Development in excess of estimates approved by the Governor
25 or in excess of the amount available for the purposes for
26 which the requisition was made, whichever is the lesser
27 amount.
28 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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