PRINTER'S NO. 3670
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2483
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY HENNESSEY, QUIGLEY, CORBIN, KAMPF, LAWRENCE,
LEWIS, WHITE, MARSICO, TOOHIL, JOZWIAK, TAYLOR, MILNE, HILL-
EVANS, READSHAW, J. McNEILL, DeLUCA, KORTZ AND DRISCOLL,
JUNE 12, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JUNE 12, 2018
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in reimbursements by Commonwealth and
between school districts, providing for supplemental payment
of basic education funding and establishing the Basic
Education Supplemental Restricted Account within the General
Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 2502.55. Supplemental Payment of Basic Education
Funding.--(a) The Basic Education Supplemental Restricted
Account is established within the General Fund. The account
shall consist of money appropriated or transferred to the
account and the interest earned by the account. The money in the
account is hereby appropriated on a continuing basis to the
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Department of Education for the purpose of making supplemental
basic education payments under this section.
(b) During any fiscal year, if a school district
experiences a reduction in the real estate tax collected, due to
a change in tax status of a real property owner, of more than
two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from the previous fiscal
year, the Department of Education shall make a payment from the
account to the qualifying school district in an amount equal to
the reduction.
(c) If there are inadequate funds in the account to make
payments under this section, the payments shall be made on a pro
rata basis to qualifying school districts.
(d) (1) Payments made under this section shall be deemed to
be part of the school district's allocation amount under section
2502.53(b)(1) for the following school year and each school year
thereafter.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply if the tax status of the
real property owner that caused the reduction in the real estate
tax collection changes to the prior tax status.
(e) If a qualifying school district receives a payment under
this section and subsequently is notified or otherwise becomes
aware that the tax status of the real property owner that caused
the reduction in the real estate tax collection changes to the
prior tax status, the qualifying school district shall notify
the Department of Education within 60 days of receiving the
notice or becoming aware of the change.
Section 2. Of the amount appropriated to the Department of
Education for the payment of basic education funding to school
districts under section 215 of the act of , 2018
(P.L. , No. ), known as the General Appropriation Act of
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2018, the sum of $5,000,000 is allocated for transfer to the
Basic Education Supplemental Restricted Account. The transfer
shall occur within 10 days of the effective date of this
section.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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