Bill Text: PA HB1915 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing the Emergency State Employee Salary Fund.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 39-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-07 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB1915 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1915-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2560
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1915 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, BAKER, BEAR, BOBACK, BROOKS, CHRISTIANA, D. COSTA, CUTLER, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, FARRY, GABLER, GIBBONS, HARRIS, HICKERNELL, HOUGHTON, KAUFFMAN, M. KELLER, MAJOR, MARSICO, METZGAR, MOUL, MUSTIO, RAPP, ROAE, SIPTROTH, S. H. SMITH, SONNEY, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TRUE, TURZAI, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, DENLINGER, GOODMAN AND FLECK, AUGUST 7, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, AUGUST 7, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
"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; 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," establishing the Emergency
State Employee Salary Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 225. Emergency State Employee Salary Fund.--(a) The
Emergency State Employee Salary Fund is established as a
separate fund in the State Treasury. The moneys of the fund are
hereby appropriated on a continuing basis to carry out the
provisions of this section.
(b) If a general appropriation act is not enacted by June
30, the State Treasurer shall periodically transfer
unappropriated, unrestricted General Fund moneys, to the extent
that such funds are available, to the Emergency State Employee
Salary Fund. The transfers shall be up to such dollar amounts
and at such times as necessary to meet the requirements of
section 223.
(c) If the Governor fails to certify revenue estimates under
section 618 for the current fiscal year the Secretary of Revenue
shall certify to the State Treasurer each time a transfer is
needed under subsection (a) that there are adequate
unappropriated, unrestricted General Fund moneys to make the
transfer.
(d) The Secretary of Administration shall draw a warrant on
the State Treasurer in favor of each State agency for the amount
to which it is entitled, to pay the salaries of its employees as
required under section 223.
(e) Transfers provided under this section shall only be in
effect during the time in which no general appropriation act has
been enacted and shall be made only in the amount necessary to
pay the salaries of State employees as required under section
223.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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