shall submit a report to the Department of Education documenting
all wages for which payments are calculated under 24 Pa.C.S. §
8329 (relating to payments on account of social security
deductions from appropriations) for each quarter by the
twentieth day of the month following the end of the quarter. A
school district that does not submit its report by this deadline
shall be paid either out of the supplemental appropriation
requested in subsection (c) or the excess calculated in
subsection (d). The department shall review the report and, if
the department agrees with the amount reported, shall process
and submit a payment requisition to the State Treasurer for the
amount in order to make a payment to each employer that
submitted a timely report on the last Thursday of the month
following the submission of the required quarterly reports. An
employer that submits an untimely report shall be paid for the
amount due by the department in a timely manner after the
required documentation has been submitted. The department shall
provide a data file for each reporting period detailing the
wages reported by each employer and the payments made to the
employer from the appropriation and provide an electronic copy
to the chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate
and the chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the House
of Representatives.
(b) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, payment of
the amounts calculated under 24 Pa.C.S. § 8329 (relating to
payments on account of social security deductions from
appropriations) for school districts shall be made from the
appropriation for basic education funding.
(c) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, if
insufficient funds are available for payment of the amounts
calculated under 24 Pa.C.S. § 8329 for school districts, the
Department of Education shall notify the Governor, the Chairman
and Minority Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the
Senate and the Chairman and Minority Chairman of the
Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives of the
amount of the insufficiency. An amount equal to the
insufficiency may only be paid to school districts from a
supplemental appropriation in the general appropriations act for
the subsequent fiscal year.
(d) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, if the
amount calculated for payments to school districts under 24
Pa.C.S. § 8329 exceeds the amount necessary, the Department of
Education shall notify the Governor, the Chairman and Minority
Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the
Chairman and Minority Chairman of the Appropriations Committee
of the House of Representatives of the amount of the excess. An
amount equal to the excess shall be distributed to school
districts as a supplemental payment calculated under the formula
contained in section 2502.53.
(e) The notice required under subsection (c) or (d) shall
occur not later than thirty (30) days prior to the close of the
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