THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY MARSICO, HARHART, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, DALEY, HESS, JAMES, KAUFFMAN, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MUNDY, PYLE, QUINN, ROCK, SABATINA, SCAVELLO, K. SMITH, TOEPEL, WATSON, WHITE, HARRIS AND M. K. KELLER, SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2012  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for DARE plate and for payments

to special funds.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1358 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is repealed:

[§ 1358.  DARE plate.

The department, in consultation with the Pennsylvania

Commission on Crime and Delinquency, shall design a special drug

abuse resistance education (DARE) registration plate which

utilizes the DARE logo or slogan in the design. Upon application

of any person, accompanied by a fee of $35 which shall be in

addition to the annual registration fee, the department shall

issue the plate for a passenger car, motor home, trailer or

truck with a registered gross weight of not more than 10,000

pounds. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program shall

receive $15 of each additional fee for this plate.]

Section 2.  Section 1905(c) of Title 75 is amended to read:

§ 1905.  Payments to special funds.

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(c)  Drug Abuse Resistance Education Fund.--[Fifteen dollars

of each fee received under section 1358 (relating to DARE plate)

shall be credited to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Fund,

established as follows:

(1)  There is hereby established a special account in the

State Treasury which shall be known as the Drug Abuse

Resistance Education (DARE) Fund. The purpose of the DARE

Fund is to provide moneys for an ongoing educational program

in public schools to prevent drug abuse, utilizing police

agency representatives, school district employees, materials,

supplies and other necessary expenses associated with the

program.

(2)  All moneys in the DARE Fund are hereby annually

appropriated to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and

Delinquency and may be expended for the purposes authorized

under this subsection.] The following shall apply:

(1)  The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Fund

shall terminate at the end of the 2012-2013 fiscal year.

(2)  All money in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education

(DARE) Fund on the effective date of this paragraph shall be

appropriated to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and

Delinquency and shall be expended to provide grants to

organizations and nonprofit entities employing a

multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, identification,

investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse,

including Children's Advocacy Centers, during fiscal year

2012-2013. All money in the the Drug Abuse Resistance

Education (DARE) Fund on the date of termination shall be

transferred to the General Fund.

(3)  Estimates of amounts to be expended under this

subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the

Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency for his

approval.

(4)  The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition

for expenditures by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and

Delinquency in excess of estimates approved by the Governor

or in excess of the amount available for the purposes for

which the requisition was made, whichever is the lesser

amount.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.