Bill Text: PA HB437 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, further providing for gasoline taxes and motor license fees and restrictions on the use of these funds.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-03 - Referred to APPROPRIATIONS [HB437 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB437-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 403
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 437 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY PRESTON, FREEMAN, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, MURT, PAYTON, READSHAW, STURLA, YOUNGBLOOD AND KIRKLAND, FEBRUARY 3, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, FEBRUARY 3, 2011
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, further providing for gasoline taxes and
motor license fees and restrictions on the use of these
funds.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 11(a) of Article VIII be amended to read:
§ 11. Gasoline taxes and motor license fees restricted.
(a) All proceeds from gasoline and other motor fuel excise
taxes, motor vehicle registration fees and license taxes,
operators' license fees and other excise taxes imposed on
products used in motor transportation after providing therefrom
for (a) cost of administration and collection, (b) payment of
obligations incurred in the construction and reconstruction of
public highways and bridges shall be appropriated by the General
Assembly to agencies of the State or political subdivisions
thereof; and used solely for construction, reconstruction,
maintenance and repair of and safety on public highways [and],
bridges, mass transit systems and costs and expenses incident
thereto, and for the payment of obligations incurred for such
purposes, and shall not be diverted by transfer or otherwise to
any other purpose, except that loans may be made by the State
from the proceeds of such taxes and fees for a single period not
exceeding eight months, but no such loan shall be made within
the period of one year from any preceding loan, and every loan
made in any fiscal year shall be repayable within one month
after the beginning of the next fiscal year.
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Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
(b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
primary, general or municipal election which meets the
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requirements of and is in conformance with section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and which occurs at least
three months after the proposed constitutional amendment is
passed by the General Assembly.
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