PRINTER'S NO. 1505
No. 1302 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY RYBAK, APRIL 25, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, APRIL 25, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 2, 1984 (P.L.553, No.110), entitled, as
2 reenacted and amended, "An act establishing a program within
3 the Department of Commerce to provide grants to engineering
4 degree-granting schools to assist in the acquisition of new
5 engineering equipment or the upgrading of existing
6 engineering equipment that is necessary to provide students
7 with the courses required to obtain a degree in engineering,"
8 further providing for acquisition and upgrading of equipment
9 and for the expiration of the act.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Sections 3 and 6 of the act of July 2, 1984
13 (P.L.553, No.110), known as the Engineering School Equipment
14 Act, reenacted and amended July 9, 1987 (P.L.211, No.35), are
15 amended to read:
16 Section 3. Engineering equipment acquisition and upgrade.
17 (a) Program.--There is established within the department a
18 program to provide grants to engineering degree-granting
19 schools. The program shall be administered by the board. Funds
20 provided through this program shall be used exclusively for the
21 acquisition of new engineering equipment and the upgrading of
1 existing engineering equipment that is necessary to provide
2 students with the courses required to obtain a baccalaureate or
3 graduate engineering degree. The board shall:
4 (1) Promulgate such policies, develop such forms and
5 institute such procedures as may be necessary to implement
6 this act.
7 (2) Allocate to each engineering school funds for which
8 it is eligible under this act.
9 (3) Approve or disapprove any request for expenditures
10 for the purchase or upgrading of equipment.
11 (4) Require such information and records from each
12 engineering school as it deems necessary.
13 (5) Request the Department of Education to certify to
14 the board the full-time equivalent enrollment of
15 baccalaureate and graduate engineering students at each
16 engineering school in the most recent year for which data are
17 available.
18 (b) Allocation of funds.--The funds provided for in this act
19 shall be allocated by the board for grants to the engineering
20 degree-granting schools based on the ratio of full-time
21 equivalent students enrolled in baccalaureate and graduate
22 engineering programs at each school to the total number of full-
23 time equivalent undergraduate and graduate engineering students
24 in the Commonwealth.
25 (c) Expenditure of funds.--All grants made to engineering
26 degree-granting schools shall be expended only for equipment. No
27 engineering school shall expend any grant funds on equipment
28 unless it also expends funds obtained from private sources on
29 that equipment. At least $3 of private funds shall be required
30 for each $1 of grant funds from this program paid to engineering
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1 degree-granting schools from the sum originally appropriated
2 under this act. For grants funded by any subsequent
3 appropriation, at least $2 of private funds shall be required
4 for each $1 of grant funds from this program. Grants made under
5 this act shall not be used to supplant existing Federal, State
6 or local funds for the acquisition or upgrading of engineering
7 equipment. As used in this subsection the term "private funds"
8 shall include funds obtained from corporate foundations.
9 (d) Distribution of unused funds.--Any allocated funds which
10 have not been expended consistent with subsection (c) by June
11 30, [1986] 1989, shall be available for reallocation by the
12 board.
13 Section 6. Expiration.
14 This act shall expire June 30, [1989] 1990.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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