Regular Session 2017-2018 Senate Bill 1192 P.N. 1815

PRINTER'S NO. 1815

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

1192

Session of

2018

INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, JUNE 4, 2018

REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 4, 2018

AN ACT

To provide from the General Fund for the expenses of the

Executive and Judicial Departments, the State Government

Support Agencies and the General Assembly of the

Commonwealth, the public debt and the public schools for the

fiscal year July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, for certain

institutions and organizations and for the payment of bills

incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year

ending June 30, 2018; to provide appropriations from the

State Lottery Fund, the Tobacco Settlement Fund, the Aviation

Restricted Account, the Hazardous Material Response Fund, The

State Stores Fund, the Milk Marketing Fund, the Home

Investment Trust Fund, the Emergency Medical Services

Operating Fund, the Tuition Account Guaranteed Savings

Program Fund, the Banking Fund, the Firearm Records Check

Fund, the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority Fund,

the Oil and Gas Lease Fund, the Home Improvement Account, the

Cigarette Fire Safety and Firefighter Protection Act

Enforcement Fund, the Insurance Regulation and Oversight

Fund, the Pennsylvania Racehorse Development Restricted

Receipt Account, the Justice Reinvestment Fund, the

Multimodal Transportation Fund, the State Racing Fund and the

ABLE Savings Program Fund to the Executive Department; to

provide appropriations from the Judicial Computer System

Augmentation Account to the Judicial Department for the

fiscal year July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019; to provide

appropriations from the Motor License Fund for the fiscal

year July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, for the proper operation

of several departments of the Commonwealth and the

Pennsylvania State Police authorized to spend Motor License

Fund money; to provide for the appropriation of Federal funds

to the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth

and for the payment of bills remaining unpaid at the close of

the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018; and to provide for the

additional appropriation of Federal and State funds from the

General Fund, the State Lottery Fund and the Tobacco

Settlement Fund for the Executive and Judicial Departments of

the Commonwealth for the fiscal year July 1, 2017, to June

30, 2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining

unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 101. Short title.

Section 102. Definitions.

Section 103. Abbreviations.

Section 104. State appropriations.

Section 105. Federal augmentation appropriations.

Section 106. Block grants.

Section 107. Appropriations to Pennsylvania Higher Education

Assistance Agency.

PART II. GENERAL FUND AND FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

FOR 2018-2019

SUBPART A. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Section 201. Governor.

Section 202. Executive Offices.

Section 203. Lieutenant Governor.

Section 204. Attorney General.

Section 205. Auditor General.

Section 206. Treasury Department.

Section 207. Department of Aging.

Section 208. Department of Agriculture.

Section 209. Department of Community and Economic Development.

Section 210. (Reserved).

Section 211. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Section 212. Department of Criminal Justice.

Section 213. (Reserved).

Section 214. Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.

Section 215. Department of Education.

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Section 216. State System of Higher Education.

Section 217. Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.

Section 218. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency.

Section 219. Department of Environmental Protection.

Section 220. Department of General Services.

Section 221. Department of Health.

Section 222. Department of Human Services.

Section 223. Insurance Department.

Section 224. Department of Labor and Industry.

Section 225. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

Section 226. Department of Revenue.

Section 227. Department of State.

Section 228. Department of Transportation.

Section 229. Pennsylvania State Police.

Section 230. State Civil Service Commission.

Section 231. Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.

Section 232. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Section 233. Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority.

Section 234. Environmental Hearing Board.

Section 235. (Reserved).

Section 236. Health Care Cost Containment Council.

Section 237. State Ethics Commission.

SUBPART B. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

Section 241. Supreme Court.

Section 242. Superior Court.

Section 243. Commonwealth Court.

Section 244. Courts of common pleas.

Section 245. Community courts - magisterial district judges.

Section 246. (Reserved).

Section 247. Philadelphia Municipal Court.

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Section 248. Judicial Conduct Board.

Section 249. Court of Judicial Discipline.

Section 250. Juror cost reimbursement.

Section 251. County court reimbursement.

SUBPART C. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Section 261. Senate.

Section 262. House of Representatives.

SUBPART D. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT AGENCIES

Section 271. Legislative Reference Bureau.

Section 272. Legislative Budget and Finance Committee.

Section 273. Legislative Data Processing Committee.

Section 274. Joint State Government Commission.

Section 275. Local Government Commission.

Section 276. Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control

and Conservation Committee.

Section 277. Legislative Audit Advisory Commission.

Section 278. Independent Regulatory Review Commission.

Section 279. Capitol Preservation Committee.

Section 280. Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.

Section 281. Center for Rural Pennsylvania.

Section 282. Commonwealth Mail Processing Center.

Section 283. Legislative Reapportionment Commission.

Section 284. Independent Fiscal Office.

PART III. STATE LOTTERY FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 301. Department of Aging.

Section 302. Department of Human Services.

PART IV. TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 401. Department of Community and Economic Development.

Section 402. Department of Human Services.

PART V. JUDICIAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AUGMENTATION ACCOUNT

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APPROPRIATIONS

Section 501. Supreme Court.

PART VI. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES OPERATING FUND

APPROPRIATIONS

Section 601. Department of Health.

PART VII. STATE STORES FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 701. Pennsylvania State Police.

PART VIII. MOTOR LICENSE FUND APPROPRIATIONS

FOR 2018-2019

SUBPART A. MOTOR LICENSE FUND

Section 801. Department of Transportation.

Section 802. Executive Offices.

Section 803. Treasury Department.

Section 804. Department of Agriculture.

Section 805. Department of Community and Economic Development.

Section 806. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Section 807. Department of Education.

Section 808. (Reserved).

Section 809. Department of General Services.

Section 810. Department of Revenue.

Section 811. Pennsylvania State Police.

SUBPART B. AVIATION RESTRICTED ACCOUNT

Section 821. Department of Transportation.

PART IX. HAZARDOUS MATERIAL RESPONSE FUND

APPROPRIATIONS

Section 901. Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.

PART X. MILK MARKETING FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1001. Milk Marketing Board.

PART XI. HOME INVESTMENT TRUST FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1101. Department of Community and Economic Development.

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PART XII. TUITION ACCOUNT GUARANTEED

SAVINGS PROGRAM FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1201. Treasury Department.

PART XIII. BANKING FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1301. Department of Banking and Securities.

PART XIV. FIREARM RECORDS CHECK FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1401. Pennsylvania State Police.

PART XV. BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITY FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1501. Department of Community and Economic Development.

PART XVI. Oil and Gas Lease Fund Appropriations

Section 1601. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

PART XVII. HOME IMPROVEMENT ACCOUNT APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1701. Attorney General.

PART XVIII. CIGARETTE FIRE SAFETY AND FIREFIGHTER

PROTECTION ACT ENFORCEMENT FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801. Attorney General.

PART XVIII-A. (RESERVED).

PART XVIII-B. INSURANCE REGULATION AND OVERSIGHT

FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801-B. Insurance Department.

PART XVIII-C. PENNSYLVANIA RACEHORSE DEVELOPMENT

RESTRICTED RECEIPT ACCOUNT APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801-C. Department of Agriculture.

PART XVIII-D. JUSTICE REINVESTMENT FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801-D. Executive offices.

PART XVIII-E. MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801-E. Department of Transportation.

PART XVIII-F. STATE RACING FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801-F. Department of Agriculture.

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Section 1802-F. Department of Revenue.

PART XVIII-G. ABLE SAVINGS PROGRAM FUND APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1801-G. Treasury Department.

PART XIX. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR

FISCAL YEAR 2017-2018

(RESERVED)

PART XX. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR FEDERAL FUNDS

FOR 2018-2019

Section 2001. General Fund repository for Federal funds.

Section 2002. Limitation on encumbering or spending Federal

funds.

Section 2003. Appropriation of prior unspent Federal funds.

Section 2004. Subgrants between Federal fund appropriations.

Section 2005. Utilization of emergency Federal funds.

Section 2006. Transfer of funds from TANFBG to CCDFBG and SSBG.

PART XXI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS FOR 2018-2019

Section 2101. Prior laws unaffected.

Section 2102. Compliance with other law before funds available.

Section 2103. Contracts prerequisite to encumbering or

committing funds.

Section 2104. Minority business set-asides.

Section 2105. Appropriation of funds from miscellaneous

sources.

Section 2106. Lapsing of unused funds.

Section 2107. Appellate courts appropriation contingency.

Section 2108. Transfer of excess funds.

Section 2109. Transfers for government support agencies.

Section 2110. Transfers for Legislative Reapportionment

Commission.

Section 2111. Administration of Human Services Block Grant.

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Section 2112. Transfers for consolidated human services

department.

PART XXII. EFFECTIVE DATE

Section 2201. Effective date.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

PART I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 101. Short title.

This act shall be known and may be cited as the General

Appropriation Act of 2018.

Section 102. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this act shall

have the meanings given to them in this section unless the

context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Employees." Includes all directors, superintendents, bureau

or division chiefs, assistant directors, assistant

superintendents, assistant chiefs, experts, scientists,

engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, accountants, secretaries,

auditors, inspectors, examiners, analysts, statisticians,

marshals, clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers, messengers and

other assistants in any department, board or commission.

"Expenses" and "maintenance." Includes all printing, binding

and stationery, food and forage, materials and supplies,

traveling expenses, training, motor vehicle supplies and

repairs, freight, express and cartage, postage, telephones and

telegraph rentals and toll charges, newspaper advertising and

notices, public advertising by or through any medium, fuel,

light, heat, power and water, minor construction and renovation,

repairs or reconstruction of equipment, buildings and

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facilities, rent of real estate and equipment, premiums on

workers' compensation, insurance premiums on policies of

liability insurance, insurance premiums on medical payment

insurance and surety bonds for volunteer workers, premiums on

employee group life insurance and employee and retired employee

group hospital and medical insurance, payment of Commonwealth

share of Social Security taxes and unemployment compensation

costs for State employees, the purchase of replacement or

additional equipment and machinery and all other incidental

costs and expenses, including payment to the Department of

General Services of mileage and other charges for the use of

automobiles and rental payments for permanently assigned

automobiles and of expenses or costs of services incurred

through the Purchasing Fund. The term "expenses" also shall

include the medical costs for the treatment of inmates of State

institutions when the inmate must be transferred to an outside

hospital, provided, that in no case shall the State institution

pay more for patient care than that provided under the State

medical assistance program.

Section 103. Abbreviations.

The following abbreviations when used in this act shall have

the meanings given to them in this section unless the context

clearly indicates otherwise:

"AIDS." Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

"ARC." Appalachian Regional Commission.

"ARRA." American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

"BG." Block grant.

"CCDFBG." Child Care and Development Fund Block Grant.

"CHIPRA." Children's Health Insurance Program

Reauthorization Act.

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"CSBG." Community Services Block Grant.

"DCSI." Drug Control and Systems Improvement Formula Grant

Program.

"DFSC." Drug Free Schools and Communities Act.

"DOE." Department of Energy.

"EEOC." Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

"EPA." Environmental Protection Agency.

"ESEA." Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

"ESG." Emergency Solutions Grant.

"FEMA." Federal Emergency Management Agency.

"FTA." Federal Transit Administration.

"HUD." Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"ID." Intellectual Disabilities.

"LIHEABG." Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Block Grant.

"LSTA." Library Services and Technology Act.

"MCH." Maternal and Child Health.

"MCHSBG." Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant.

"MHSBG." Mental Health Services Block Grant.

"PAFE." Pennsylvania Agricultural Food Exposition.

"PHHSBG." Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant.

"RSAT." Residential Substance Abuse Treatment.

"SABG." Substance Abuse Block Grant.

"SCDBG." Small Communities Development Block Grant.

"SDA." Service Delivery Area.

"SNAP." Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Project.

"SORNA." Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

"SPBP." Special Pharmaceutical Benefit Program.

"SSBG." Social Services Block Grant.

"TANF." Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

"TANFBG." Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block

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Grant.

"TB." Tuberculosis.

"TEFAP." Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program.

"VA." Veterans' Administration.

"WIA." Workforce Investment Act.

"WIC." Women, Infants and Children Program.

Section 104. State appropriations.

(a) General Fund.--The following sums set forth in this act,

or as much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby specifically

appropriated from the General Fund to the several hereinafter

named agencies of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial

Departments of the Commonwealth for the payment of salaries,

wages or other compensation and travel expenses of the duly

elected or appointed officers and employees of the Commonwealth,

for the payment of fees for contractual services rendered, for

the purchase or rental of goods and services, printing, public

advertising by or through any medium, equipment, land and

buildings and for payment of any other expenses, as provided by

law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct of the

duties, functions and activities and for the purposes

hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(b) State Lottery Fund.--The following sums set forth in

this act, or as much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby

specifically appropriated from the State Lottery Fund to the

several hereinafter named agencies of the Executive Department

of the Commonwealth for the payment of salaries, wages or other

compensation and travel expenses of the duly appointed officers

and employees of the Commonwealth, for the payment of fees for

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contractual services rendered, for the purchase or rental of

goods and services and for payment of any other expenses, as

provided by law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct

of the duties, functions and activities and for the purposes

hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

in this act, or as much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby

specifically appropriated from the Tobacco Settlement Fund to

the hereinafter named agencies of the Executive Department of

the Commonwealth for the payment of salaries, wages or other

compensation and travel expenses of the duly appointed officers

and employees of the Commonwealth, for the payment of fees for

contractual services rendered, for the purchase or rental of

goods and services and for payment of any other expenses, as

provided by law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct

of the duties, functions and activities and for the purposes

hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(d) Judicial Computer System Augmentation Account.--The

following sums set forth in this act, or as much thereof as may

be necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the

restricted receipt account established within the General Fund,

known as the Judicial Computer System Augmentation Account, to

the Judicial Department of the Commonwealth for the payment of

salaries, wages or other compensation and travel expenses, for

the payment of fees for contractual services rendered, for the

purchase or rental of goods and services and for the payment of

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any other expenses, as provided by law or by this act, necessary

for the proper conduct of the duties, functions and activities

and for the purposes hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year

beginning July 1, 2018, and for the payment of bills incurred

and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June

30, 2018.

(e) Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund.--The

following sums set forth in this act, or as much thereof as may

be necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the

Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund to the several

hereinafter named agencies of the Executive Department of the

Commonwealth for the payment of fees for contractual services

rendered, for the purchase or rental of goods and services and

for the payment of any other expenses, as provided by law or by

this act, necessary for the proper conduct of the duties,

functions and activities and for the purposes hereinafter set

forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and for the

payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of

the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(f) The State Stores Fund.--The following sums set forth in

this act, or as much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby

specifically appropriated from The State Stores Fund to the

hereinafter named agencies of the Executive Department of the

Commonwealth for the payment of salaries, wages or other

compensation and travel expenses of the duly appointed officers

and employees of the Commonwealth, for the payment of fees for

contractual services rendered, for the purchase or rental of

goods and services and for the payment of any other expenses, as

provided by law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct

of the duties, functions and activities and for the purposes

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hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(g) Motor License Fund.--The following sums, or as much

thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated from the

Motor License Fund to the hereinafter named agencies of the

Executive Department for the payment of salaries, wages and

other compensation and travel expenses of the duly elected or

appointed officers and employees of the Commonwealth, for

contractual services and other expenses necessary for the proper

conduct of the duties, functions and activities for the purposes

hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(h) Aviation Restricted Account.--The following sums, or as

much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated from

the Aviation Restricted Account in the Motor License Fund to the

hereinafter named agencies of the Executive Department for the

purposes set forth herein for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(i) Hazardous Material Response Fund.--The following sums

set forth in this act, or as much thereof as may be necessary,

are hereby specifically appropriated from the Hazardous Material

Response Fund to the several hereinafter named agencies of the

Executive Department of the Commonwealth for the payment of fees

for contractual services rendered, for the purchase or rental of

goods and services and for the payment of any other expenses, as

provided by law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct

of the duties, functions and activities and for the purposes

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hereinafter set forth for the fiscal year beginning July 1,

2018, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid

at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

(j) Milk Marketing Fund.--The following sums set forth in

this act, or as much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby

specifically appropriated from the Milk Marketing Fund to the