PRINTER'S NO. 1298
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1140
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY ORTITAY, APRIL 8, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, APRIL 8, 2019
AN ACT
Making appropriations from the General Fund to the Pennsylvania
Higher Education Assistance Agency for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2019, and for the payment of bills incurred
and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 2020.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
PART I
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Section 101. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Appropriation
Act of 2019 – Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency.
PART III
GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS
FOR 2019-2020
Section 301. Appropriations from General Fund.
The following amounts, or as much thereof as may be
necessary, are hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency for the purposes
specified in this part for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
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2019, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid
at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020:
Federal State
For payment of education
assistance grants.
State appropriation....... 273,391,000
For Pennsylvania Internship
program grants.
State appropriation....... 450,000
For Ready to Succeed
Scholarships.
State appropriation....... 5,000,000
For matching payments for
student aid funds.
State appropriation....... 12,496,000
For institutional assistance
grants to be allotted by the
Pennsylvania Higher Education
Assistance Agency.
State appropriation....... 26,521,000
For higher education for the
disadvantaged.
State appropriation....... 2,246,000
For higher education for blind
and deaf students.
State appropriation....... 47,000
For the Horace Mann Bond-
Leslie Pinckney Hill Scholarship
and for outreach and recruitment
activities at Lincoln and Cheyney
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Universities related to the
scholarship. This appropriation
also contains funds for the
continuation of support to
students currently receiving
equal opportunity professional
education awards.
State appropriation....... 697,000
For the Cheyney University
Keystone Academy.
State appropriation....... 1,813,000
PART V
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 501. (Reserved).
Section 502. Effective date.
This act shall take effect July 1, 2019, or immediately,
whichever is later.
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