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A05112
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1942
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY DUNBAR, REED, SAYLOR, NELSON, DELOZIER, R. BROWN,
BERNSTINE, CUTLER, BOBACK, A. HARRIS, FEE, BARRAR, ROTHMAN,
RYAN, LAWRENCE, MILLARD, TURZAI, PHILLIPS-HILL, GREINER,
HELM, DUSH, COX, EVERETT, TOEPEL, STAATS, KEEFER, WHEELAND,
BLOOM, DOWLING, WATSON, KLUNK, MASSER, BENNINGHOFF, GROVE AND
SONNEY, DECEMBER 1, 2017
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 5, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled,
as amended, "An act providing for and reorganizing the
conduct of the executive and administrative work of the
Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the
administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers
thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal
Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating,
reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain
administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining
the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and
administrative officers, and of the several administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the
salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain
other executive and administrative officers; providing for
the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of
all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain
departments, boards, and commissions; providing for judicial
administration; and prescribing the manner in which the
number and compensation of the deputies and all other
assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
commissions shall be determined," in Commonwealth budget
procedures, further providing for transmission of budget
information to the General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 619 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
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No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
Section 619. Transmission of Budget Information to the
General Assembly.--* * *
(a.1) (1) After December 1 and no later than the date of
the Governor's briefing under subsection (a), the Secretary of
the Budget shall evaluate the official REVENUE estimate for the
fiscal year in comparison to year-to-date revenue collections
and updated projections of collections for the remainder of the
fiscal year and shall project the difference between the
official estimate REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR and the
year-to-date revenue collection and COLLECTIONS PLUS updated
projections of collections for the remainder of the fiscal year.
The Secretary of the Budget shall provide documentation of the
projection under this paragraph to the chairperson and minority
chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and ,
the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations
Committee of the House of Representatives , the Independent
Fiscal Office and the members of the General Assembly .
(2) If the Secretary of the Budget projects that the UPDATED
PROJECTION OF actual revenue collections plus any unappropriated
surplus for the fiscal year will be less than the official
estimate REVENUE ESTIMATE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR , the Secretary of
the Budget shall disapprove or reduce amounts under section 615
from the departments, boards and commissions to which section
615 applies in an amount equal to the projected difference.
(3) After the revenue conference under section 608-B, the
Secretary of the Budget shall revise the projection of the
difference under clause (1) and shall ensure that the amounts
disapproved or reduced under clause (2) are no less than the
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revised estimate of the difference under clause (1), at least
once per month until the end of the fiscal year.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018, or
immediately, whichever is later.
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