Bill Text: PA SR98 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adopting a temporary rule of the Senate relating solely to amendments to the General Appropriation Bill and other appropriation bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, including any amendments offered to or for supplemental appropriations for prior fiscal years.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-04-29 - Adopted [SR98 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SR98-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 932
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 98 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PILEGGI, CORMAN AND MELLOW, APRIL 27, 2009
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, APRIL 27, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Adopting a temporary rule of the Senate relating solely to
amendments to the General Appropriation Bill and other
appropriation bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2009, including any amendments offered to or for supplemental
appropriations for prior fiscal years.
RESOLVED, That the Senate adopt a temporary rule to read:
TEMPORARY RULE
I. Budget Amendments on Senate Floor
1. Floor amendments to the General Appropriation Bill or
other general fund or special fund appropriation bills for the
fiscal year commencing July 1, 2009, or for any prior fiscal
year, shall be in order on second consideration only.
2. Any amendment offered on the floor of the Senate to the
General Appropriation Bill or other General Fund or special fund
appropriation bills (which collectively comprise and shall be
referred to as the 2009-2010 Budget) that proposes increased
spending from the General Fund or any special fund for the
Commonwealth 2009-2010 fiscal year, or any prior fiscal year,
above the levels contained in the 2009-2010 Budget as reported
from the Appropriations Committee shall not be in order and may
not be considered unless the same amendment, or any "statement
of intent" appended thereto, contains sufficient line-item
reductions to the 2009-2010 Budget so that the amendment offered
does not result in a net increase in the total spending from the
General Fund or any special fund contained within such budget.
Where a proposed alteration in the General Appropriation Bill is
balanced, in whole or in part, by a change in other
appropriation bills, the amendment shall have appended thereto a
"statement of intent" setting forth the proposed adjustment to
the other appropriation bill or bills that will result in there
being no net increase in the total spending from the General
Fund or any special fund contained within the 2009-2010 Budget
as reported from the Appropriations Committee.
3. For the purpose of this temporary rule, the Legislative
Reference Bureau, in drafting any amendment to the General
Appropriation Bill or any other appropriation bill, shall append
the "statement of intent" required for a proposal which involves
more than one bill.
4. Any amendment offered on the floor of the Senate
proposing to make reductions in the following appropriations
shall be out of order:
(a) Debt service.
(b) Transfer to Commonwealth Financing Agency.
(c) School employees' Social Security.
(d) Harristown rentals.
(e) Occupational disease payments.
5. Any amendment offered on the floor of the Senate
proposing to make reductions in the following appropriations
shall be out of order unless such amendment includes a program
revision not contrary to statutes governing such program:
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(a) Cash assistance grants.
(b) Medical assistance outpatient.
(c) Medical assistance inpatient.
(d) Medical assistance capitation.
(e) Long-term care.
(f) Supplemental Security Income - aged, blind, disabled.
II. Amendments in Appropriations Committee
1. Any amendment offered in the Appropriations Committee to
the General Appropriation Bill that would increase total
authorized spending for the Commonwealth 2009-2010 fiscal year
or any prior fiscal year above the spending levels contained in
the General Appropriation Bill shall not be in order and may not
be considered unless the same amendment contains sufficient
reductions in line items in the General Appropriation Bill that
the amendment does not result in a net increase in the total
spending.
2. Any amendment offered in the Appropriations Committee
proposing to make reductions in the following appropriations
shall be out of order:
(a) Debt service.
(b) Transfer to Commonwealth Financing Agency.
(c) School employees' Social Security.
(d) Harristown rentals.
(e) Occupational disease payments.
3. Any amendment offered in the Appropriations Committee
proposing to make reductions in the following appropriations
shall be out of order unless such amendment includes a program
revision not contrary to statutes governing such program:
(a) Cash assistance grants.
(b) Medical assistance outpatient.
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(c) Medical assistance inpatient.
(d) Medical assistance capitation.
(e) Long-term care.
(f) Supplemental Security Income - aged, blind, disabled.
III. Suspension
This temporary rule may be temporarily suspended only by a
vote of the majority of the members elected to the Senate.
IV. Expiration
This temporary rule shall expire upon the enactment of a
General Appropriation Act for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2009.
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