Bill Text: PA HB946 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In general budget implementation, further providing for the State Gaming Fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-20 - Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS [HB946 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB946-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1044
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 946 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY GOODMAN, MARCH 8, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MARCH 8, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled,
as amended, "An act relating to the finances of the State
government; providing for the settlement, assessment,
collection, and lien of taxes, bonus, and all other accounts
due the Commonwealth, the collection and recovery of fees and
other money or property due or belonging to the Commonwealth,
or any agency thereof, including escheated property and the
proceeds of its sale, the custody and disbursement or other
disposition of funds and securities belonging to or in the
possession of the Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims
against the Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and
appeals to the courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to
the Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth
and all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
department, board, commission, and officer of the State
government, every political subdivision of the State, and
certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
Commonwealth," in general budget implementation, further
providing for the State Gaming Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1799-E(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, added July 17, 2007
(P.L.141, No.42), is amended to read:
Section 1799-E. State Gaming Fund.
(a) Transfers for Volunteer Fire Company and Volunteer
Ambulance Service Grant Act.--Commencing with fiscal year
2007-2008 and continuing annually thereafter, the sum of
$25,000,000 shall be transferred from the State Gaming Fund to
the General Fund and is hereby appropriated on a continuing
basis to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency for the
purpose of making grants in accordance with [Chapter 7 of the
act of July 31, 2003 (P.L.73, No.17), known as the Volunteer
Fire Company and Volunteer Ambulance Service Grant Act] 35
Pa.C.S. Ch. 78 Subch. D (relating to grant funding provisions).
Annually, the sum of $22,000,000 shall be expended for the
purpose of making grants to eligible volunteer fire companies
pursuant to [Chapter 3 of the Volunteer Fire Company and
Volunteer Ambulance Service Grant Act] 35 Pa.C.S. Ch. 78 Subch.
B (relating to volunteer fire company grant program). Annually,
the sum of $3,000,000 shall be expended for the purpose of
making grants to eligible volunteer ambulance services pursuant
to [Chapter 5 of the Volunteer Fire Company and Volunteer
Ambulance Service Grant Act] 35 Pa.C.S. Ch. 78 Subch. C
(relating to volunteer ambulance service grant program).
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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