SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3690 PRINTER'S NO. 4471
No. 2510 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY FEESE, MARCH 14, 2006
SENATOR WENGER, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, RE-REPORTED AS
AMENDED, JUNE 30, 2006
AN ACT
1 Making appropriations to the Philadelphia Health and Education
2 Corporation for the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health,
3 Nursing and Health Professions and for continuation of
4 pediatric services.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. (a) The sum of $7,495,000 $7,720,000 is hereby <--
8 appropriated to the Philadelphia Health and Education
9 Corporation for the College of Medicine for the fiscal year July
10 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007, for instruction in the Doctor of
11 Medicine program.
12 (b) The sum of $1,668,000 $1,718,000 is hereby appropriated <--
13 to the Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation for the
14 Colleges of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Health
15 Professions for the fiscal year July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007,
16 for the general maintenance of the Colleges of Medicine, Public
17 Health and Nursing, including the Allied Health, Professions and
1 Graduate Schools, and for student aid.
2 (c) The sum of $296,000 $305,000 is hereby appropriated to <--
3 the Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation for the fiscal
4 year July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007, for minority educational
5 and recruitment programs.
6 (d) The sum of $712,000 is hereby appropriated to the
7 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation, for the fiscal
8 year July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007, for continued pediatric
9 outpatient and inpatient treatment of severe physically
10 disabling diseases.
11 (e) The sum of $149,000 is hereby appropriated to the
12 Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation, for the fiscal
13 year July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007, for continued support of
14 the handicapped children's clinic.
15 (f) The sum of $1,943,000 $2,001,000 is hereby appropriated <--
16 to the Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation, for the
17 College of Medicine for the fiscal year July 1, 2006, to June
18 30, 2007, for operating expenses.
19 Section 2. (a) Payments to the Philadelphia Health and
20 Education Corporation on account of the appropriations provided
21 in section 1(a), (b), (c) and (f) shall be made quarterly by the
22 Secretary of Education on the basis of costs during the fiscal
23 year and shall be conditioned on continuing authority for
24 inclusion on the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Health
25 and Education Corporation of a minimum of five persons who are
26 not elected officials and who are appointed by the Governor, the
27 President pro tempore of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the
28 Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
29 Minority Leader of the House of Representatives for terms of
30 office coterminous with that of the respective appointing
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1 authority; and shall be further conditioned on these appointees
2 receiving full voting rights as members of the board of
3 trustees.
4 (b) Payments to the Philadelphia Health and Education
5 Corporation on account of the appropriations provided in section
6 1(d) and (e) shall be made by the Secretary of Health in equal
7 quarterly payments.
8 Section 3. (a) The Philadelphia Health and Education
9 Corporation shall provide full, complete and accurate
10 information for the appropriations under section 1(a), (b), (c)
11 and (f) as may be required by the Department of Education or the
12 chairman or the minority chairman of the Appropriations
13 Committee of the Senate or the chairman or the minority chairman
14 of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives.
15 (b) The Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation shall
16 provide full, complete and accurate information for the
17 appropriations under section 1(d) and (e) as may be required by
18 the Department of Health or the chairman or the minority
19 chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate or the
20 chairman or the minority chairman of the Appropriations
21 Committee of the House of Representatives.
22 Section 4. The Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation
23 for the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Health
24 Professions shall report its revenues and expenditures and
25 present its financial statements in accordance with generally
26 accepted accounting principles and procedures for educational
27 institutions as set forth in the "Higher Education Finance
28 Manual (1975)" and the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget
29 Instructions for the State System of Higher Education, State-
30 Related Universities and Non-State-Related Colleges and
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1 Universities."
2 Section 5. The trustees of the Philadelphia Health and
3 Education Corporation for the Colleges of Medicine, Public
4 Health, Nursing and Health Professions shall report on forms
5 provided by the Department of Education to both the chairman and
6 minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate
7 and the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations
8 Committee of the House of Representatives by September 30, 2007,
9 on how State-appropriated funds were expended for fiscal year
10 2006-2007 to reduce the costs to Pennsylvania resident students
11 or to provide services to Pennsylvania residents.
12 Section 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006, or
13 immediately, whichever is later.
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