PRINTER'S NO. 747

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 712 Session of 1981


        INTRODUCED BY McCLATCHY, MARCH 6, 1981

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MARCH 6, 1981

                                     AN ACT

     1  Providing additional funds to several agencies of the Executive
     2     Department from the General Fund and the Motor License Fund.

     3     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     4  hereby enacts as follows:
     5     Section 1.  The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
     6  necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the General
     7  Fund to the several hereinafter named agencies of the Executive
     8  Department of the Commonwealth for the payment of salaries,
     9  wages or other compensation and travel expense of the duly
    10  elected or appointed officers and employees of the Commonwealth,
    11  for payment of fees of contractual services rendered, for the
    12  purchase or rental of goods, services, printing, equipment, land
    13  and buildings and for the payment of any other expenses, as
    14  provided by law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct
    15  of the duties, functions and activities and for the purposes
    16  hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1980
    17  and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at
    18  the close of the fiscal period ending June 30, 1980.


     1                      I.  EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
     2                          To the Governor
     3     For the General Counsel.......................     $200,000
     4                      To the Attorney General
     5     For the general government operations of the
     6  Attorney General.................................     $260,000
     7     For legal services............................      100,000
     8                     To the Treasury Department
     9     For implementation of the contract information
    10  office pursuant to section 1104 of the act of
    11  April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as "The
    12  Administrative Code of 1929".....................      $50,000
    13               To the Department of Community Affairs
    14     For the general government operations of the
    15  Department of Community Affairs for the moving
    16  expenses of the transfer of the Bureau of Land
    17  Records..........................................      $60,000
    18                   To the Department of Education
    19     For the Governor's School for the Arts........     $250,000
    20     For payments on account of nonpublic school
    21  transportation...................................    3,529,000
    22     For payments to school districts and
    23  intermediate units on account of special education
    24  of exceptional children in public schools........    4,800,000
    25     For payments to school districts on account
    26  of homebound instruction.........................      127,000
    27            To the Department of Environmental Resources
    28     For gypsy moth and other insect spraying
    29  operations.......................................     $500,000
    30               To the Department of General Services
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     1     For the general government operations of the
     2  Department of General Services for the prepara-
     3  tion of archives for the transfer of the Bureau
     4  of Land Records..................................      $86,000
     5               To the Department of Military Affairs
     6     For payment of pensions to dependents of
     7  soldiers of the Pennsylvania National Guard
     8  killed in the line of duty.......................      $15,000
     9                To the Department of Public Welfare
    10     For cash assistance grants....................  $25,000,000
    11                    To the Department of Revenue
    12     For the distribution of Public Utility
    13  Realty Tax.......................................   $5,466,000
    14                     To the Department of State
    15     For publishing constitutional amendments......      $30,000
    16     Section 2.  The following sums, or as much thereof as may be
    17  necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the Motor
    18  License Fund to the hereinafter named agencies of the
    19  Commonwealth for the payment of salaries, wages and other
    20  compensation and travel expenses of the duly elected or
    21  appointed officers and employees of the Commonwealth, for
    22  contractual services and other expenses necessary for the proper
    23  conduct of the duties, functions and activities for the purposes
    24  hereinafter set forth for the fiscal period beginning July 1,
    25  1980 and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid
    26  at the close of the fiscal period ending June 30, 1980.
    27                     To the Treasury Department
    28     Refunding Liquid Fuels Tax - Volunteer fire
    29  companies, volunteer ambulance services and
    30  volunteer rescue squads..........................       $18,000
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     1     Refund Liquid Fuels Tax - To the Boating Fund
     2  for the use of the Fish Commission for the improve-
     3  ment of the waters of Pennsylvania on which motor-
     4  boats are permitted to operate...................       235,000
     5     Section 3.  The funds provided in this act are in addition to
     6  any funds provided in the act of June 18, 1980 (No.17A), known
     7  as the "General Appropriation Act of 1980," the act of October
     8  15, 1980 (No.164), known as the "Commonwealth Attorneys Act," or
     9  the act of June 30, 1980 (No.22A), known as the "Motor License
    10  Fund Supplement to the General Appropriation Act of 1980".
    11     Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.













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