PRINTER'S NO. 496
No. 461 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY WOJNAROSKI, METCALFE, TANGRETTI, SHANER, READSHAW,
MELIO, RUFFING, MARKOSEK, CAPPELLI, MAITLAND, McNAUGHTON,
BARRAR, ORIE, LEDERER, FLEAGLE, WANSACZ, GEIST, PETRARCA,
HUTCHINSON, HALUSKA AND SOLOBAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 5, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for the Choose Life license plate, for a
3 Choose Life Plate Fund and for the distribution of annual use
4 fees received from the registration of the plate.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 1361. Choose Life plate.
10 (a) Plate.--The department, in consultation with Choose
11 Life, Inc., shall design a Choose Life plate. Upon application
12 of a person, accompanied by a fee of $35 which shall be in
13 addition to the annual registration fee, the department shall
14 issue the plate for a passenger car, motor home, trailer or
15 truck with a registered gross weight of not more than 9,000
16 pounds.
17 (b) Use of fee.--Of each fee paid under subsection (a), $15
18 shall be deposited into the Choose Life Plate Fund, which is
1 established as a special account in the Department of Health.
2 The fund shall be used to pay for programs offered by certain
3 crisis pregnancy centers.
4 Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
5 subsection to read:
6 § 1905. Payments to special funds.
7 * * *
8 (d) Choose Life Plate Fund.--Fifteen dollars of each fee
9 received under section 1361 (relating to Choose Life plate)
10 shall be credited to the Choose Life Plate Fund, established as
11 follows:
12 (1) There is hereby established a special account in the
13 State Treasury which shall be known as the Choose Life Plate
14 Fund. The purpose of the fund is to pay for programs offered
15 by certain crisis pregnancy centers.
16 (2) All moneys in the Choose Life Plate Fund are hereby
17 annually appropriated to the Department of Health and may be
18 expended for the purposes authorized under this subsection.
19 (3) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this
20 subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the
21 Department of Health for his approval.
22 (4) The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition
23 for expenditures by the Department of Health in excess of
24 estimates approved by the Governor or in excess of the amount
25 available for the purposes for which the requisition was
26 made, whichever is the lesser amount.
27 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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