SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 864 PRINTER'S NO. 2529
No. 831 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY FEESE, MARCH 14, 2005
SENATOR THOMPSON, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, RE-REPORTED AS
AMENDED, JULY 5, 2005
AN ACT
1 Making appropriations to the Thomas Jefferson University,
2 Philadelphia.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. (a) The sum of $5,402,000 is hereby appropriated
6 to the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, for the fiscal
7 year July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, for instruction in the
8 Doctor of Medicine program.
9 (b) The sum of $4,096,000 $4,116,000 is hereby appropriated <--
10 to the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, for the fiscal
11 year July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, for the general maintenance
12 of the Thomas Jefferson University, including the College of
13 Allied Health Sciences, student aid and Children's Heart
14 Hospital.
15 (c) The sum of $25,000 $49,000 is hereby appropriated to the <--
16 Trustees of Jefferson Medical College and Hospital,
1 Philadelphia, for the fiscal year July 1, 2005, to June 30,
2 2006, for a comprehensive program relating to persons with Tay-
3 Sachs disease.
4 Section 2. (a) Payments to the Thomas Jefferson University
5 on account of the appropriations provided in section 1(a) and
6 (b) shall be made quarterly by the Secretary of Education on the
7 basis of costs during the fiscal year and shall be conditioned
8 on continuing authority for inclusion on the Board of Trustees
9 of the Thomas Jefferson University of a minimum of five
10 individuals who are not elected officials and who are appointed,
11 one each, by the Governor, the President pro tempore of the
12 Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the
13 House of Representatives and the Minority Leader of the House of
14 Representatives, for terms of office coterminous with that of
15 their appointing authority; and shall be further conditioned on
16 these appointees receiving full voting rights as members of the
17 board of trustees. The legislative appointee under this
18 subsection with the most seniority on the board must be a member
19 of the executive committee of the board. The legislative
20 appointee who is second most senior on the board must be a
21 member of the finance committee of the board. The legislative
22 appointee who is on the executive committee shall, within two
23 weeks of each executive committee meeting, send each legislative
24 appointee to the board a written summary of the meeting.
25 (b) The Thomas Jefferson University shall provide full,
26 complete and accurate information as may be required by the
27 Department of Education or the chairman or the minority chairman
28 of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate or the chairman or
29 the minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the
30 House of Representatives.
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1 (c) The Thomas Jefferson University shall report its
2 revenues and expenditures and present its financial statements
3 in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
4 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in the
5 "Higher Education Finance Manual (1975)" and the "Commonwealth
6 of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for the State System of
7 Higher Education, State-Related Universities and Non-State-
8 Related Colleges and Universities."
9 (d) The trustees of the Thomas Jefferson University shall
10 report on forms provided by the Department of Education to both
11 the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations
12 Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman
13 of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives
14 by September 30, 2006, on how State-appropriated funds were
15 expended for fiscal year 2005-2006 to reduce the costs to
16 Pennsylvania resident students or to provide services to
17 Pennsylvania residents.
18 Section 3. (a) Payment to Jefferson Medical College and
19 Hospital on account of the appropriation relating to Tay-Sachs
20 disease as provided for in section 1(c) shall be made by the
21 Secretary of Health in equal quarterly payments and shall be
22 conditioned upon a program which shall include the detection of
23 Tay-Sachs disease in the community, counseling of individuals
24 and families, education of the public, coordination of research
25 into the treatment for Tay-Sachs disease and the expansion of
26 genetic diagnostic services and treatment of persons with the
27 disease.
28 (b) Jefferson Medical College and Hospital shall provide
29 full, complete and accurate information as may be required by
30 the Department of Health or the chairman or the minority
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1 chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate or the
2 chairman or the minority chairman of the Appropriations
3 Committee of the House of Representatives.
4 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005, or
5 immediately, whichever is later.
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