PRINTER'S NO. 116
No. 97 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY MARKOSEK, T. STEVENSON, YOUNGBLOOD, READSHAW,
LEDERER, SHANER, CAWLEY, WATSON, HENNESSEY, KOTIK, TIGUE,
DeLUCA, LEVDANSKY, BEBKO-JONES, MANN, LAUGHLIN, PRESTON,
SOLOBAY, BELFANTI, KELLER, TANGRETTI, DALEY, MANDERINO,
HARHAI, WALKO, BARD, CORRIGAN, THOMAS, FRANKEL, PALLONE,
HORSEY, SAINATO AND PISTELLA, FEBRUARY 3, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 3, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for supplemental
3 public transportation assistance funding.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1310.1(a) of Title 74 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1310.1. Supplemental public transportation assistance
9 funding.
10 (a) General rule.--[Beginning July 1, 1997,] An amount equal
11 to 1.22% of the money collected from the tax imposed under
12 Article II of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as
13 the Tax Reform Code of 1971, [up to a maximum of $75,000,000,]
14 shall be deposited in the Supplemental Public Transportation
15 Account, which is established in the State Treasury. Within 30
16 days of the close of a calendar month, 1.22% of the taxes
1 received in the prior calendar month shall be transferred to the
2 account. [No funds in excess of $75,000,000 may be transferred
3 to the account in any one fiscal year.] The money in the account
4 shall be used by the department for supplemental public
5 transportation assistance, to be distributed under this section.
6 Transit entities may use supplemental assistance moneys for any
7 of the purposes enumerated in section 1311 (relating to use of
8 funds distributed). In addition to those enumerated purposes,
9 Class 1, 2 and 3 transit entities also may use the base
10 supplemental assistance share for general operations. Class 4
11 transit entities may use all supplemental assistance moneys for
12 general operations.
13 * * *
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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