SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3372 PRINTER'S NO. 4173
No. 2337 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY D. EVANS, MARCH 10, 2008
SENATOR ARMSTRONG, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, RE-REPORTED AS
AMENDED, JULY 2, 2008
AN ACT
1 Making an appropriation to the Pennsylvania College of
2 Optometry, Philadelphia.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. The sum of $1,701,000 $1,679,000 is hereby <--
6 appropriated to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry,
7 Philadelphia, for the fiscal year July 1, 2008, to June 30,
8 2009, for instruction.
9 Section 2. Payments to the Pennsylvania College of Optometry
10 on account of the appropriation provided in section 1 shall be
11 made quarterly by the Secretary of Education on the basis of
12 costs during the fiscal year and shall be conditioned on
13 continuing authority for inclusion on the Board of Trustees of
14 the Pennsylvania College of Optometry of a minimum of five
15 persons who are not elected officials and who are appointed by
16 the Governor, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the
1 Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
2 Representatives and the Minority Leader of the House of
3 Representatives for terms of office coterminous with that of the
4 respective appointing authority; and shall be further
5 conditioned on these appointees receiving full voting rights as
6 members of the board of trustees.
7 Section 3. The Pennsylvania College of Optometry shall
8 provide full, complete and accurate information as may be
9 required by the Department of Education or the chairman or the
10 minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate
11 or the chairman or the minority chairman of the Appropriations
12 Committee of the House of Representatives.
13 Section 4. The Pennsylvania College of Optometry shall
14 report its revenues and expenditures and present its financial
15 statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting
16 principles and procedures for educational institutions as set
17 forth in the "Higher Education Finance Manual (1975)" and the
18 "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for the State
19 System of Higher Education, State-Related Universities and Non-
20 State-Related Colleges and Universities."
21 Section 5. The trustees of the Pennsylvania College of
22 Optometry shall report on forms provided by the Department of
23 Education to both the chairman and minority chairman of the
24 Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairman and
25 minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House
26 of Representatives by September 30, 2009, on how State-
27 appropriated funds were expended for fiscal year 2008-2009 to
28 reduce the costs to Pennsylvania resident students or to provide
29 services to Pennsylvania residents.
30 Section 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008, or
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1 immediately, whichever is later.
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