Bill Text: PA SB408 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: In Commonwealth budget procedures, providing for general appropriation bill time line.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-07 - Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS [SB408 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB408-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  408

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

408

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ARGALL, BRUBAKER, EARLL, EICHELBERGER, ERICKSON, PIPPY, RAFFERTY, SMUCKER AND D. WHITE, FEBRUARY 7, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, FEBRUARY 7, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

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"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

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executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the

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Executive Department thereof and the administrative

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departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

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including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

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Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

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authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

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departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

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duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

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officers, and of the several administrative departments,

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boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

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Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

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and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

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certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

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other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

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and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

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number and compensation of the deputies and all other

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assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

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commissions shall be determined," in Commonwealth budget

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procedures, providing for general appropriation bill time

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line.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known

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as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a

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section to read:

 


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Section 613.1.  General Appropriation Bill Time Line.--(a)  A

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member of the Senate and a member of the House of

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Representatives shall introduce a general appropriation bill for

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a fiscal year in the member's chamber no later than six weeks

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after the date of submission of the budget by the Governor to

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the General Assembly.

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(b)  Each chamber of the General Assembly shall pass a

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complete and balanced general appropriation bill no later than

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the second full week of May.

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(c)  If no complete and balanced general appropriation bill

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has been passed by the General Assembly and submitted to the

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Governor for signing by June 15 and if either the Senate or the

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House of Representatives has passed a complete and balanced

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general appropriation bill, the other chamber which has not

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passed a complete and balanced general appropriation bill must

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vote on the complete and balanced general appropriation bill

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passed by the other chamber.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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