PRINTER'S NO. 994
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
826
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY GINGRICH, CUTLER, HENNESSEY, MACKENZIE, METZGAR,
MILLARD, REGAN, DUNBAR, KNOWLES, BLOOM, RAPP, HEFFLEY,
KAUFFMAN, BAKER, JAMES, TOEPEL, MARSICO, GRELL, PEIFER,
PICKETT, MAHER, MURT, WATSON, WARD AND GROVE, MARCH 24, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 24, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Titles 45 (Legal Notices) and 71 (State Government) of
the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general
provisions, requiring executive orders to have a fiscal note;
in Independent Fiscal Office, requiring the Independent
Fiscal Office to prepare fiscal notes for executive orders;
and making an inconsistent repeal of certain provisions of
The Administrative Code of 1929.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 45 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 510. Fiscal note.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each executive
order of the Governor which is general and permanent in nature
shall require a fiscal note.
Section 2. Section 4104(a) of Title 71 is amended by adding
a paragraph to read:
§ 4104. Duties of office.
(a) Mandatory.--The office shall:
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(8) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prepare
a fiscal note for each executive order of the Governor which
is general and permanent in nature. The fiscal note shall
state whether the proposed action or procedure causes a loss
of revenue or an increase in the cost of programs to the
Commonwealth or its political subdivisions. The fiscal note
shall be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and the
Pennsylvania Code at the same time the executive order is
published. The fiscal note shall provide the following
information:
(i) The designation of the fund out of which the
appropriation providing for expenditures under the action
or procedure shall be made.
(ii) The probable cost for the fiscal year the
program is implemented.
(iii) A projected cost estimate of the program for
each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
(iv) The fiscal history of the program for which
expenditures are to be made.
(v) The probable loss of revenue for the fiscal year
of its implementation.
(vi) A projected loss of revenue from the program
for each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
(vii) The line item, if any, of the General
Appropriation Act or other appropriation act out of which
expenditures or losses of Commonwealth funds shall occur
as a result of the action or procedure.
(viii) The recommendation, if any, of the Secretary
of the Budget and the reasons for the recommendation.
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Section 3. Section 612 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is repealed
insofar as it is inconsistent with the addition of 71 Pa.C.S §
4104(a)(8).
Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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