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PRINTER'S NO. 1748
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1159
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY ARNOLD, BARTOLOTTA AND GORDNER, JUNE 5, 2020
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 5, 2020
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled
"An act relating to the finances of the State government;
providing for cancer control, prevention and research, for
ambulatory surgical center data collection, for the Joint
Underwriting Association, for entertainment business
financial management firms, for private dam financial
assurance and for reinstatement of item vetoes; providing for
the settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes,
bonus, and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the
collection and recovery of fees and other money or property
due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
department, board, commission, and officer of the State
government, every political subdivision of the State, and
certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
Commonwealth," in general budget implementation, further
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providing for reports to General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1706-E of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
Section 1706-E. Reports to General Assembly.
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(d) State of emergency.-- The General Assembly or a local
governmental body or agency may not enact or enforce a law,
rule, regulation or ordinance imposing a tax on or relating to
the use, disposition, sale, prohibition or restriction of
single-use plastics, auxiliary containers, wrappings or
polystyrene containers, until December 31, 2021, or 12 months
after the termination of the proclamation of disaster emergency
issued by the Governor on March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B.
1644 (March 21, 2020), and any renewal of the state of disaster
emergency, whichever is later.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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