SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 3608, 3771 PRINTER'S NO. 3978
No. 2530 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY FLEAGLE, APRIL 8, 2002
SENATOR THOMPSON, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
JUNE 10, 2002
AN ACT
1 Making an appropriation from a restricted revenue account within
2 the General Fund AND from Federal augmentation funds and from <--
3 the First Class City Taxicab Regulatory Fund to the
4 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
8 necessary, are specifically appropriated from the restricted
9 revenue account within the General Fund and from Federal
10 augmentation funds to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
11 to provide for the operation of the commission for the fiscal
12 year July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003, for the purposes and in the
13 amounts shown:
14 Federal State
15 For the salaries, wages and all
16 necessary expenses for the proper
17 operation and administration of the
1 Pennsylvania Public Utility
2 Commission, including the chairman and
3 commissioners and the Bureau of Safety
4 and Enforcement.
5 State appropriation........ 42,898,000
6 The following Federal augmentation
7 amounts, or as much thereof as may be
8 necessary, are specifically
9 appropriated to supplement the sum
10 authorized to be billed to utilities
11 for the operation of the commission:
12 (1) "Natural Gas Pipeline
13 Safety" - To enforce the
14 regulations of the Natural Gas
15 Pipeline Safety Act.
16 Federal appropriation...... 350,000
17 Any Federal funds which the
18 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
19 receives pursuant to these
20 appropriations shall not be reimbursed
21 to any utility.
22 Section 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Pennsylvania <--
23 Public Utility Commission a sum not to exceed $2,500,000 from
24 the First Class City Taxicab Regulatory Fund established by and
25 authorized in 66 Pa.C.S. Ch. 24 (relating to taxicabs in first
26 class cities) for hospitality initiatives making taxicab service
27 in the city of the first class more consumer friendly. Any money
28 not encumbered by June 30, 2004, shall lapse into the First
29 Class City Taxicab Regulatory Fund.
30 Section 3 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2002, or <--
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1 immediately, whichever is later.
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