THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BURNS, HOUGHTON, BRADFORD, BENNINGHOFF, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CUTLER, ELLIS, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, GALLOWAY, GERGELY, GIBBONS, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, HALUSKA, HARHAI, HARRIS, HESS, KORTZ, LENTZ, LEVDANSKY, MAHONEY, MOUL, MURT, PALLONE, PETRARCA, SANTARSIERO, SCAVELLO, SEIP, SOLOBAY, TALLMAN, R. TAYLOR, YUDICHAK AND SWANGER, MARCH 12, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAMING OVERSIGHT, MARCH 12, 2010  

AN ACT

Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for table game taxes.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 13A62(c) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, added January 7, 2010 (P.L.1, No.1), is

amended to read:

§ 13A62.  Table game taxes.

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(c)  Deposits for property tax relief.--[If, on the last day

of a fiscal year the balance of the Budget Stabilization Reserve

Fund established pursuant to section 1701-A of the act of April

9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, exceeds

$750,000,000, as certified by the Secretary of the Budget] Two

years following the first payment of tax under subsection (b)

(1), the deposits made into the General Fund pursuant to

subsection (b)(3) shall cease and thereafter be deposited into

the Property Tax Relief Fund established pursuant to section

1409 (relating to Property Tax Relief Fund).

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