PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2765, 2781

PRINTER'S NO. 2805

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1942

Session of

2017

INTRODUCED BY DUNBAR, REED, SAYLOR, NELSON, DELOZIER, R. BROWN,

BERNSTINE, CUTLER, BOBACK, A. HARRIS, FEE, BARRAR, ROTHMAN,

RYAN, LAWRENCE, MILLARD, TURZAI, PHILLIPS-HILL, GREINER,

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

as amended, "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

departments, boards, and commissions; providing for judicial

administration; 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," in Commonwealth budget

procedures, further providing for transmission of budget

information to the General Assembly.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 619 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,

the Budget shall evaluate the official revenue estimate for the

fiscal year in comparison to year-to-date revenue collections

and updated projections of collections for the remainder of the

fiscal year and shall project the difference between the

official revenue estimate for the fiscal year and the year-to-

date revenue collections plus updated projections of collections

for the remainder of the fiscal year. The Secretary of the

Budget shall provide documentation of the projection under this

paragraph to the chairperson and minority chairperson of the

Appropriations Committee of the Senate and , the chairperson and

year , the Secretary of the Budget shall disapprove or reduce

amounts under section 615 from the departments, boards and

commissions to which section 615 applies in an amount equal to

the projected difference.

(3) After the revenue conference under section 608-B, the

Secretary of the Budget shall revise the projection of the

difference under clause (1) and shall ensure that the amounts

disapproved or reduced under clause (2) are no less than the