PRINTER'S NO. 890
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
899
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY HANBIDGE, SANCHEZ, MADDEN, HOWARD, LONGIETTI,
KENYATTA, McNEILL, GUENST, ROZZI, MALAGARI, GALLOWAY, BURGOS,
SAPPEY AND CONKLIN, MARCH 15, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS,
MARCH 15, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 3 (Agriculture) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in Agriculture Rapid Response Disaster Readiness
Account, further providing for eligible disaster funding and
for Agriculture Rapid Response Disaster Readiness Account.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 11104 and 11107(a) of Title 3 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 11104. Eligible disaster funding.
Purposes for which money from the account may be used by the
department shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) To mitigate, contain, control, eradicate, prevent or
limit the spread of any of the following if the secretary
determines any of the following poses an immediate danger to
public or animal health, food safety or economic well-being
in this Commonwealth:
(i) Transmissible disease.
(ii) Hazardous substance contamination.
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