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PRINTER'S NO. 1522
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1010
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY WAGNER, ARGALL, MARTIN, RESCHENTHALER, HUTCHINSON,
MENSCH, VULAKOVICH, AUMENT, FOLMER, RAFFERTY, STEFANO, WARD,
BROWNE AND REGAN, MARCH 9, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
MARCH 9, 2018
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled,
as amended, "An act relating to the finances of the State
government; providing for cancer control, prevention and
research, for ambulatory surgical center data collection and
for the joint underwriting association, providing for the
settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes, bonus,
and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the collection
and recovery of fees and other money or property due or
belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
department, board, commission, and officer of the State
government, every political subdivision of the State, and
certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
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Commonwealth," in general budget implementation, further
providing for Department of Community and Economic
Development.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1719-E(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, amended October 30,
2017 (P.L.725, No.44), is amended to read:
Section 1719-E. Department of Community and Economic
Development.
(a) Appropriations.--The following shall apply to
appropriations for the Department of Community and Economic
Development:
(1) No more than 20% of funds appropriated for grants
under the act of May 20, 1949 (P.L.1633, No.493), known as
the Housing and Redevelopment Assistance Law, shall be
allocated to any one political subdivision.
(2) [(Reserved).] A grant may not be paid to an entity,
other than a municipality, school district, community
college, institution within the State System of Higher
Education or a State-related university, unless the following
provisions are satisfied:
(i) The entity has demonstrated to the satisfaction
of the department that the entity has made reasonable
efforts to obtain funding for the expenses for which the
grant is being requested from other sources and that
there are not other feasible sources of funding available
to the entity for the expenses.
(ii) The entity agrees to repay the Commonwealth the
balance of the grant money that is not expended on the
purpose for which the grant was awarded.
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(iii) The entity agrees, in the event the entity
obtains funding from any source after payment of the
grant, to repay the Commonwealth an amount equal to the
funding from the other source up to the amount of the
grant.
(iv) The entity agrees, in the event the department
determines that the entity misrepresented the entity's
efforts to obtain funding as provided under subparagraph
(i), to repay the Commonwealth the full amount of the
grant.
(v) In the event the entity breaches any of the
duties under subparagraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv), the
department has adopted a procedure for enforcing the
agreement and obtaining repayment from the entity and the
procedure is clearly specified in the agreement.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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