PRINTER'S NO. 1406
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
923
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BROWN, DUNBAR, OWLETT, JAMES, PICKETT, IRVIN,
TOEPEL, KAUFFMAN, MILLARD, KAUFER, OBERLANDER, GROVE,
HENNESSEY, FRITZ, STRUZZI, GREINER, RADER, HAHN, KEEFER AND
SCHLEGEL CULVER, APRIL 15, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, APRIL 15, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
"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 administrative
officers, and of the several administrative departments,
boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
other assistants and employes in certain 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 submission of budget to General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 613 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended to
read:
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Section 613. Submission of Budget to General Assembly.--(a)
As soon as possible after the organization of the General
Assembly, but not later than the first full week in February of
each year, except in the case where a Governor has been elected
for his first term of office and then no later than the first
full week in March, the Governor shall submit to the General
Assembly copies of original agency budget requests and all
subsequent revised agency budget requests and a State budget and
program and financial plan embracing:
(1) A balanced operating budget for the ensuing fiscal year
setting forth in detail:
(i) The amounts recommended by him to be appropriated to the
General Assembly, the Judicial Department, the Governor, and the
several administrative departments, boards, and commissions of
the State Government, and to institutions within the State, and
for all public purposes, classified by department or agency and
by program.
(ii) The estimated revenues or receipts from any and all
sources, and an estimated amount to be raised by taxation or
otherwise, including proposals for new revenues and receipts.
(2) A capital budget for the ensuing fiscal year setting
forth capital projects to be financed from the proceeds of
obligations of the Commonwealth or of its agencies or
authorities or from operating funds.
(3) A program and financial plan for not less than the prior
fiscal year, the current fiscal year, this budget year and the
four succeeding fiscal years, which plan shall include for each
such fiscal year:
(i) Actual or estimated operating expenditures classified by
department or agency and by program, in reasonable detail, and
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actual or estimated revenue by major categories from existing
and additional sources.
(ii) Clearly stated purposes of each program in terms of
desired accomplishments.
(iii) Measures used to determine to what extent such program
has achieved its stated purposes.
(iv) Actual or estimated levels of accomplishment for each
program and actual or estimated levels of program activities and
their associated costs.
(v) Clearly stated purposes for each recommended new or
revised program, measures to be used to determine whether each
new or revised program has achieved its purpose, estimated
levels of additional or new accomplishment of each new or
revised program, estimated levels of additional activities for
each such program, and their associated costs.
(vi) When the Secretary of the Budget identifies a new or
expanded program by criteria used in the budget instructions,
the new or expanded program shall be displayed and justified as
a separate item in the Governor's budget request. A new program
shall not be considered to be enacted by the General Assembly in
its first year unless it is specifically referred to or
displayed as a line item in an appropriation bill.
(4) The budget shall list as a single, separate line item
for each administrative department, board, and commission the
amount which the Governor recommends to be appropriated for the
ensuing fiscal year for public relations. For the purposes of
this clause, "public relations" shall include the preparation,
presentation and distribution of advertising, publications,
radio tapes, television films and tapes, and media releases. The
separate line item shall include all compensation, including
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fringe benefits; all travel, meal, lodging, and similar
expenses; the cost of purchasing new equipment and supplies; the
cost of leasing offices and equipment; the cost of purchasing
material, including newspapers, magazines, movies, films and
tapes; the cost of using wire service equipment; and all other
similar public relations expenditures.
(5) For a request for an additional appropriation from State
funds for a fiscal year prior to the fiscal year which is the
subject of the submission under this subsection, a statement of
the need for the additional appropriation and recommendations
for cost savings or other reforms which address the cause of the
need for the additional appropriation.
(b) For a request for an additional appropriation from State
funds made after the submissions under subsection (a) by the
Governor to the General Assembly for a fiscal year prior to the
next succeeding fiscal year, the request shall include a
statement of the need for the additional appropriation and
recommendations for cost savings or other reforms which address
the cause of the need for the additional appropriation.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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