SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 3712, 3804, 3880
PRINTER'S NO. 4008
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2484
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY WHITE AND KORTZ, MAY 5, 2020
SENATOR HUTCHINSON, FINANCE, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED,
JUNE 23, 2020
AN ACT
Amending Titles 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated
Associations) and 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of
the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, establishing
financial restrictions related to the COVID-19 emergency; in
financial matters of domestic nonprofit corporations, further
providing for investment of trust funds and providing for
nonjudicial settlement agreement; and, in principal and
income, further providing for charitable trusts.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5548(c) of Title 15 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 5548. Investment of trust funds.
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(c) Determination of income.--
(1) Unless otherwise specifically directed in the trust
instrument, the board of directors or other body may elect to
be governed by this subsection with respect to assets thus
received, including any participation in any common trust
fund.
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(2) To make an election under this subsection, the board
of directors or other body shall adopt and follow an
investment policy seeking a total return for the assets held
by the corporation or in the name of a nominee of the
corporation or by an institutional trustee pursuant to
section 5549 (relating to transfer of trust or other assets
to institutional trustee), whether the return is to be
derived from capital appreciation, earnings or distributions
with respect to the capital or both. The policy constituting
the election shall be in writing, shall be maintained as part
of the permanent records of the corporation and shall recite
that it constitutes an election to be governed by this
subsection.
(3) (i) If an election is made to be governed by this
subsection, the term "income" shall mean a percentage of
the value of the assets so held by or for the
corporation. [The]
(ii) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph
(iii), the board of directors or other body shall in a
writing maintained as part of the permanent records of
the corporation annually select a percentage and
determine that it is consistent with the long-term
preservation of the real value of the assets, but in no
event shall the percentage be less than 2% nor more than
7% per year.
(iii) The board of directors or other governing body
shall, in selecting a percentage, consider both the long-
term preservation of the real value of the assets and the
corporation's need for capital to fulfill its mission and
may select a percentage of not more than 10% per year.
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This subparagraph shall only apply during calendar years
2020, 2021 and 2022, or for the corporation's fiscal
years that end during those calendar years.
(4) The board of directors or other body may revoke an
election to be governed by this subsection if the revocation
is made as part of an alternative investment policy seeking
the long-term preservation of the real value of the assets
thus received. The revocation and alternative investment
policy shall be in writing and maintained as part of the
permanent records of the corporation.
(5) For purposes of applying this subsection, the value
of the assets of the corporation shall be the fair market
value of the assets so held by or for the corporation,
determined at least annually and averaged over a period of
three or more preceding years. However, if the assets have
been held for less than three years, the average shall be
determined over the period during which the assets have been
held.
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Section 2. Title 15 is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 5548.1. Nonjudicial settlement agreement.
Notwithstanding section 5547(b) (relating to authority to
take and hold trust property):
(1) Except as expressly provided in the gift instrument
and as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), if the donor
placed restrictions on the use or management of property
transferred to a nonprofit corporation, the donor or anyone
the donor appointed for the purpose in the gift instrument,
or the guardian of the donor's property, the agent under the
donor's financial power of attorney or the donor's personal
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representative, together with the nonprofit corporation
holding the property, may enter into a binding nonjudicial
settlement agreement during calendar years 2020, 2021 and
2022, or the nonprofit corporation's fiscal years that end
during those calendar years with respect to any matter
involving the property, including a restriction.
(2) A nonjudicial settlement agreement is valid only to
the extent it includes terms and conditions that the court
could approve under this chapter or other applicable law and
that the property remains committed to a charitable purpose
or purposes.
(3) A nonprofit corporation may request , during calendar
years 2020, 2021 and 2022, or the nonprofit corporation's
fiscal years that end during those calendar years, the court
to review a nonjudicial settlement agreement in order to
determine whether the agreement contains terms and conditions
the court could have approved.
(4) A proceeding commenced during calendar years 2020,
2021 and 2022, or the nonprofit corporation's fiscal years
that end during those calendar years, to enforce a gift
instrument related to assets held by a nonprofit corporation
for a charitable purpose, whether or not subject to a
nonjudicial settlement agreement, may be brought by the donor
during the donor's lifetime or at any time by the Office of
the Attorney General, by a charitable organization expressly
named in the gift instrument and nonjudicial settlement
agreement, if applicable, to receive any portion of the
assets governed by the gift instrument and nonjudicial
settlement agreement, if applicable, or by any other person
having standing to do so, which may include anyone appointed
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in the gift instrument.
Section 3. Section 8113(c) of Title 20 is amended to read:
ยง 8113. Charitable trusts.
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(c) Effect of election.--
(1) If an election is made to be governed by this
section, [governed by this section,] the term "income" shall
mean a percentage of the value of the trust. [The]
(2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3), the
trustee shall, in a writing maintained as part of the
permanent records of the trust, select the percentage and
determine that it is consistent with the long-term
preservation of the real value of the principal of the
trust[,] but in no event shall the percentage be less than 2%
nor more than 7% per year.
(3) The trustee shall consider the long-term
preservation of the real value of the trust assets in
selecting a percentage and, as to each charitable
organization to which the trustee is required to or may
distribute funds, shall consider the organization's need for
capital to fulfill its mission and communicate with the
organization to make that determination, in selecting a
percentage, and may select a percentage as great as 10% per
year. This paragraph shall only apply during calendar years
2020, 2021 and 2022, or for the trust's fiscal years that end
during those calendar years.
(4) The term "principal" shall mean all other assets
held by the trustee with respect to the trust. The selection
may be made either annually or subject to change only when
the trustee deems such change necessary and prudent.
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Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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