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PRINTER'S NO. 1721
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
166
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY HUGHES, FEBRUARY 19, 2019
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE AMENDMENTS, IN SENATE, MAY 28, 2020
AN ACT
Providing for the capital budget for the fiscal year 2019-2020
and for limitation on redevelopment assistance capital
projects; and making a related repeal.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Capital
Budget Act of 2019-2020.
Section 2. Overall limitations on debt to be incurred for
capital projects.
The maximum principal amount of additional debt to be
incurred during the 2019-2020 fiscal year, and thereafter until
the enactment of the 2020-2021 capital budget specifying the
maximum debt for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, for capital projects
specifically itemized in a capital budget pursuant to section
7(a)(4) of Article VIII of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and
the fund to be charged with the repayment of such debt, shall,
with respect to each category of capital projects, be as
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follows:
Category Amount Fund
(1) Public Improvement
Projects:
(i) Buildings and
structures $550,000,000 General Fund or
Special Fund as
applicable
(2) Furniture and
equipment 10,000,000 General Fund or
Special Fund as
applicable
(3) Transportation
assistance projects 175,000,000 General Fund
(4) Redevelopment
assistance projects 275,000,000 General Fund
(5) Flood control
projects 0 General Fund
Total $1,010,000,000
Section 2.1. Limitation on redevelopment assistance capital
projects.
The following limitations shall apply to redevelopment
assistance capital projects:
(1) Subject to adjustment under paragraph (2) or (3),
the maximum amount of redevelopment assistance capital
projects undertaken by the Commonwealth for which obligations
are outstanding shall not exceed, in aggregate,
$3,350,000,000.
(2) Beginning July 1, 2018, and each July 1 thereafter
until the sum of the outstanding obligations for
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redevelopment assistance capital projects equals
$3,150,000,000 $3,100,000,000 or July 1, 2021 2022, whichever
occurs first, the sum of the maximum amount of outstanding
obligations for redevelopment assistance projects shall be
decreased by $50,000,000.
(3) Beginning July 1, 2022, and each July 1 thereafter
until the sum of the outstanding obligations for
redevelopment assistance capital projects equals
$2,975,000,000, the sum of the maximum amount of outstanding
obligations for redevelopment assistance projects shall be
decreased by $50,000,000.
Section 2.2. Repeals are as follows:
(1) The General Assembly declares that the repeal under
paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the addition of
section 2.1.
(2) Section 317(b) of the act of February 9, 1999
(P.L.1, No.1), known as the Capital Facilities Debt Enabling
Act, is repealed.
Section 3. Effective date.
This act shall take effect July 1, 2019 2020, or immediately,
whichever is later.
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