THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ALLOWAY, ARGALL, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, ERICKSON, GREENLEAF, PIPPY, RAFFERTY, SMUCKER, WARD AND D. WHITE, DECEMBER 17, 2009

REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, DECEMBER 17, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the

Executive Department thereof and the administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

officers, and of the several administrative departments,

boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," providing for general

appropriation bill time line.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known

as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a

section to read:

Section 613.1.  General Appropriation Bill Time Line.--(a)  A

member of the Senate and a member of the House of

Representatives shall introduce a general appropriation bill for

a fiscal year in the member's chamber no later than six weeks

after the date of submission of the budget by the Governor to

the General Assembly.

(b)  Each chamber of the General Assembly shall pass a

complete and balanced general appropriations bill no later than

the second full week of May.

(c)  If no final budget agreement has been reached by June 15

and if either the Senate or the House of Representatives has

passed a budget, the opposing chamber which has not passed a

budget must vote on what the other chamber has approved.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.