Trial Engrossment of Amendment A05112 to House Bill 1942 P.N. 2781, Regular Session 2017-2018

A05112

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1942

Session of

2017

INTRODUCED BY DUNBAR, REED, SAYLOR, NELSON, DELOZIER, R. BROWN,

BERNSTINE, CUTLER, BOBACK, A. HARRIS, FEE, BARRAR, ROTHMAN,

RYAN, LAWRENCE, MILLARD, TURZAI, PHILLIPS-HILL, GREINER,

HELM, DUSH, COX, EVERETT, TOEPEL, STAATS, KEEFER, WHEELAND,

BLOOM, DOWLING, WATSON, KLUNK, MASSER, BENNINGHOFF, GROVE AND

SONNEY, DECEMBER 1, 2017

AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 5, 2017

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled,

as amended, "An act providing for and reorganizing the

conduct of the executive and administrative work of the

Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the

administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers

thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal

Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating,

reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain

administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining

the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and

administrative officers, and of the several administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the

salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain

other executive and administrative officers; providing for

the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of

all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain

departments, boards, and commissions; providing for judicial

administration; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," in Commonwealth budget

procedures, further providing for transmission of budget

information to the General Assembly.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 619 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,

No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by

adding a subsection to read:

Section 619. Transmission of Budget Information to the

General Assembly.--* * *

(a.1) (1) After December 1 and no later than the date of

the Governor's briefing under subsection (a), the Secretary of

the Budget shall evaluate the official REVENUE estimate for the

fiscal year in comparison to year-to-date revenue collections

and updated projections of collections for the remainder of the

fiscal year and shall project the difference between the

official estimate REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR and the

year-to-date revenue collection and COLLECTIONS PLUS updated

projections of collections for the remainder of the fiscal year.

The Secretary of the Budget shall provide documentation of the

projection under this paragraph to the chairperson and minority

chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and ,

the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations

Committee of the House of Representatives , the Independent

Fiscal Office and the members of the General Assembly .

(2) If the Secretary of the Budget projects that the UPDATED

PROJECTION OF actual revenue collections plus any unappropriated

surplus for the fiscal year will be less than the official

estimate REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR , the Secretary of

the Budget shall disapprove or reduce amounts under section 615

from the departments, boards and commissions to which section

615 applies in an amount equal to the projected difference.

(3) After the revenue conference under section 608-B, the

Secretary of the Budget shall revise the projection of the

difference under clause (1) and shall ensure that the amounts

disapproved or reduced under clause (2) are no less than the

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