PRINTER'S NO. 1119
No. 936 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY ARMSTRONG, JUNE 8, 2007
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 8, 2007
AN ACT
1 Making appropriations to the Thomas Jefferson University,
2 Philadelphia.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. (a) The sum of $5,592,000 is hereby appropriated
6 to the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, for the fiscal
7 year July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, for instruction in the
8 Doctor of Medicine program.
9 (b) The sum of $4,260,000 is hereby appropriated to the
10 Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, for the fiscal year
11 July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, for the general maintenance of
12 the Thomas Jefferson University, including the College of Allied
13 Health Sciences, student aid and Children's Heart Hospital.
14 Section 2. (a) Payments to the Thomas Jefferson University
15 on account of the appropriations provided in section 1(a) and
16 (b) shall be made quarterly by the Secretary of Education on the
17 basis of costs during the fiscal year and shall be conditioned
1 on continuing authority for inclusion on the Board of Trustees
2 of the Thomas Jefferson University of a minimum of five
3 individuals who are not elected officials and who are appointed,
4 one each, by the Governor, the President pro tempore of the
5 Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the
6 House of Representatives and the Minority Leader of the House of
7 Representatives, for terms of office coterminous with that of
8 their appointing authority; and shall be further conditioned on
9 these appointees receiving full voting rights as members of the
10 board of trustees. The legislative appointee under this
11 subsection with the most seniority on the board must be a member
12 of the executive committee of the board. The legislative
13 appointee who is second most senior on the board must be a
14 member of the finance committee of the board. The legislative
15 appointee who is on the executive committee shall, within two
16 weeks of each executive committee meeting, send each legislative
17 appointee to the board a written summary of the meeting.
18 (b) The Thomas Jefferson University shall provide full,
19 complete and accurate information as may be required by the
20 Department of Education or the chairman or the minority chairman
21 of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate or the chairman or
22 the minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the
23 House of Representatives.
24 (c) The Thomas Jefferson University shall report its
25 revenues and expenditures and present its financial statements
26 in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and
27 procedures for educational institutions as set forth in the
28 "Higher Education Finance Manual (1975)" and the "Commonwealth
29 of Pennsylvania Budget Instructions for the State System of
30 Higher Education, State-Related Universities and Non-State-
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1 Related Colleges and Universities."
2 (d) The trustees of the Thomas Jefferson University shall
3 report on forms provided by the Department of Education to both
4 the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations
5 Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman
6 of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives
7 by September 30, 2008, on how State-appropriated funds were
8 expended for fiscal year 2007-2008 to reduce the costs to
9 Pennsylvania resident students or to provide services to
10 Pennsylvania residents.
11 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007, or
12 immediately, whichever is later.
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