PRINTER'S NO. 1733
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1581
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY NEILSON, STAATS, McNEILL, BOBACK, MALAGARI,
SAINATO, MATZIE AND DELLOSO, JUNE 8, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, JUNE 8, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled,
"An act relating to the finances of the State government;
providing for cancer control, prevention and research, for
ambulatory surgical center data collection, for the Joint
Underwriting Association, for entertainment business
financial management firms, for private dam financial
assurance and for reinstatement of item vetoes; providing for
the settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes,
bonus, and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the
collection and recovery of fees and other money or property
due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
department, board, commission, and officer of the State
government, every political subdivision of the State, and
certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
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Commonwealth," providing for certain fraternal organizations
as institutions of purely public charity.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known
as The Fiscal Code, is amended by adding an article to read:
ARTICLE XVI-L
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS AS INSTITUTIONS
OF PURELY PUBLIC CHARITY
Section 1601-L. Scope of article.
This article applies to certain fraternal organizations.
Section 1602-L. Nature of organizations.
Notwithstanding a provision to the contrary in the act of
November 26, 1997 (P.L.508, No.55), known as the Institutions of
Purely Public Charity Act, the following shall be deemed an
institution of purely public charity under the Institutions of
Purely Public Charity Act:
(1) Fraternal beneficiary societies, orders or
associations operating under the lodge system and providing
for the payment of life, sick, accident or other benefits to
the members of the society, order or association or their
dependents and domestic fraternal societies, orders or
associations operating under the lodge system, the net
earnings of which are devoted exclusively to religious,
charitable, scientific, literary, educational and fraternal
purposes, in each case if the following apply:
(i) the organization has been operating in this
Commonwealth for not less than 100 years;
(ii) the organization qualifies for an exemption
from taxation under section 501(c)(8) or (10) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law 99-514, 26
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U.S.C. § 501(c)(8) and (10)); and
(iii) the organization has not been issued a license
under the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as
the Liquor Code.
(2) Title holding organizations that qualify for an
exemption from taxation under section 501(c)(2) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(2)) that
are wholly owned or controlled by one or more fraternal
organizations described in paragraph (1).
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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