1Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2Statutes, providing for a bullying awareness and prevention
3registration plate; establishing the Bullying Awareness and
4Prevention Fund; and further providing for payments to
5special funds.

6The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7hereby enacts as follows:

8Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
9Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:

10§ 1358.1. Bullying awareness and prevention plate.

11The department, in consultation with the Office for Safe
12Schools within the Department of Education, shall design and
13produce a bullying awareness and prevention special registration
14plate. Upon application by any person, accompanied by a $35 fee
15which shall be in addition to the annual registration fee, the
16department shall issue the plate for a passenger car or truck
17with a registered gross weight not exceeding 14,000 pounds. The
18Bullying Awareness and Prevention Fund shall receive $15 of the
19fee paid by the applicant for the plate.

1Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
2subsection to read:

3§ 1905. Payments to special funds.

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5(d) Bullying Awareness and Prevention Fund.--Fifteen dollars
6of each fee received under section 1358.1 (relating to bullying
7awareness and prevention plate) shall be credited to the
8Bullying Awareness and Prevention Fund, established as follows:

9(1) There is hereby established a special account in the
10State Treasury, which shall be known as the Bullying
11Awareness and Prevention Fund. The purpose of the Bullying
12Awareness and Prevention Fund is to provide moneys for an
13ongoing program to raise awareness of and prevent bullying.

14(2) All moneys in the Bullying Awareness and Prevention
15Fund are hereby annually appropriated to the Office for Safe
16Schools within the Department of Education and may be
17expended for the purposes authorized under this subsection.

18(3) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this
19subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the Office
20for Safe Schools for approval by the Governor.

21(4) The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition
22for expenditures by the Office for Safe Schools in excess of
23estimates approved by the Governor or in excess of the amount
24available for the purposes for which the requisition was
25made, whichever is the lesser amount.

26Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.