PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1248 PRINTER'S NO. 2631
No. 1068 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, ARMSTRONG, BEBKO-JONES, BROWNE, BUNT,
CLYMER, COY, CREIGHTON, FICHTER, GRUCELA, HARHART, HERMAN,
HESS, LEACH, McILHATTAN, R. MILLER, NAILOR, NICKOL, PHILLIPS,
RUBLEY, SCAVELLO, STAIRS, E. Z. TAYLOR, TIGUE, WASHINGTON,
WILT, LEWIS, HARPER, HERSHEY, THOMAS AND HORSEY,
APRIL 7, 2003
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, SEPTEMBER 23, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," providing State reimbursement for
6 mobile classroom facilities; AND MAKING EDITORIAL CHANGES. <--
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 2574(a) of the act of March 10, 1949
10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949,
11 amended September 29, 1959 (P.L.992, No.407), is amended to
12 read:
13 Section 2574. Approved Reimbursable Rental for Leases
14 Hereafter Approved and Approved Reimbursable Sinking Fund
15 Charges on Indebtedness.--(a) For school building projects for
16 which the general construction contract is awarded subsequent to
17 March 22, 1956, and for approved school building projects for
1 which the general construction contract was awarded but for
2 which a lease was not approved by the Department of [Public
3 Instruction] Education prior to March 22, 1956, the Department
4 of [Public Instruction] Education shall calculate an approved
5 reimbursable rental or approved reimbursable sinking fund
6 charges. Reimbursable sinking fund charges may include charges
7 for temporary indebtedness within constitutional limitations, if
8 the indebtedness is incurred for approved [permanent]
9 improvements to the school plant including the cost of acquiring
10 a suitable site for a school building, the cost of constructing
11 a new school building, or the cost of providing needed additions
12 or alterations to existing buildings for which no bond issue is
13 provided and for which an approved obligation or obligations
14 other than bonds have been issued and the obligation or
15 obligations are payable within five (5) years from the date of
16 issue of the obligation in equal annual installments. As used in
17 this section, "building" shall include mobile A PERMANENT <--
18 STRUCTURE THAT CONTAINS OR IS ATTACHED TO RELOCATABLE or modular
19 classrooms. THE TERM "RELOCATABLE OR MODULAR CLASSROOM" SHALL <--
20 MEAN A CLASSROOM NOT OF A PERMANENT NATURE WHICH MEETS THE
21 CRITERIA AND SPECIFICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
22 Approved reimbursable rental or sinking fund charge shall
23 consist of that part of the annual rental or sinking fund charge
24 attributable to--
25 (1) The cost of acquiring the land upon which the school
26 buildings are situate, the cost of necessary rough grading to
27 permit proper placement of the building upon said land and the
28 cost of sewage treatment plants, as required by the Department
29 of Health, to the extent that such costs are deemed reasonable
30 by the Department of [Public Instruction] Education and the
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1 interest on such costs of acquisition, grading and sewage
2 treatment plants earned subsequent to date the construction
3 contract is awarded, and
4 (2) The approved building construction cost and the interest
5 on such construction cost.
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7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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