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AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 950
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE BERNSTINE
Printer's No. 937
Amend Bill, page 1, line 2, by striking out "workers' rights"
and inserting
spending limitations
Amend Bill, page 1, lines 7 through 16; page 2, lines 1
through 4; by striking out all of said lines on said pages and
inserting
That Article VIII be amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 18. Spending limitations.
(a) Total spending by the Commonwealth shall not exceed the
spending limit in any fiscal year. The spending limit for any
fiscal year shall be equal to the spending during the
immediately prior fiscal year, adjusted by the sum of:
(i) The average of the percentage change in the annual
United States Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-
U), as reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, for each of the immediately preceding three
calendar years.
(ii) The average of the percentage change in the resident
population in this Commonwealth, as reported by the United
States Census Bureau for July 1 of each year, for the
immediately preceding three calendar years.
(b) The percentage of the rate of change calculated under
subsection (a) used in any fiscal year to adjust the spending
limit may be increased for that fiscal year by the affirmative
vote of three-fourths of the members elected to each House of
the General Assembly. The Commonwealth's spending limit
calculated under subsection (a) may be changed by the procedure
outlined in section 1(a) of Article XI.
(c) Total spending by the Commonwealth means all
appropriations and authorizations from the General Fund and
shall exclude refunds and the spending of Federal funds, gifts
or receipts restricted by laws in effect as of January 1 of the
year when this section is ratified and approved by the qualified
electors of this Commonwealth. This section shall not be
circumvented by transferring spending from the General Fund to
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special funds or restricted receipt accounts.
Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting after line 20
Section 3. The addition of section 18(a) of Article VIII of
the Constitution of Pennsylvania shall become effective
beginning with the first fiscal year commencing more than six
months following approval of section 18 of Article VIII of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania by the electorate.
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