PRINTER'S NO. 139
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
183
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY LEACH, BREWSTER, COSTA, SANTARSIERO, HAYWOOD,
HUGHES AND YUDICHAK, FEBRUARY 1, 2019
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 1, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of August 7, 1963 (P.L.549, No.290), entitled
"An act creating the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance
Agency; defining its powers and duties; conferring powers and
imposing duties on the Governor, President Pro Tempore of the
Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Department of
Auditor General; and making appropriations," establishing the
Pay It Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania Program; imposing a
natural gas severance tax; and establishing the Pay It
Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania Program Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of August 7, 1963 (P.L.549, No.290),
referred to as the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance
Agency Act, is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 5.11. Pay It Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania
Program.--(a) The Pay It Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania
Program is established by the agency in order to provide loans
to eligible students under this section, which loans are to be
repaid, in part, according to the income of the eligible
students.
(b) The Pay It Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania Program Fund
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