PRINTER'S NO. 1991
No. 1590 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY SCHRODER, MAY 12, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MAY 12, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 submission of budget to General Assembly.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 613 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
25 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, amended or
26 added September 17, 1978 (P.L.775, No.149), July 1, 1981
27 (P.L.143, No.48) and August 14, 1991 (P.L.331, No.35), is
1 amended to read:
2 Section 613. Submission of Budget to General Assembly.--As
3 soon as possible after the organization of the General Assembly,
4 but not later than the first full week in February of each year,
5 except in the case where a Governor has been elected for his
6 first term of office and then no later than the first full week
7 in March, the Governor shall submit to the General Assembly
8 copies of original agency budget requests and all subsequent
9 revised agency budget requests and a State budget and program
10 and financial plan embracing:
11 (1) A balanced operating budget for the ensuing fiscal year
12 setting forth in detail:
13 (i) The amounts recommended by him to be appropriated to the
14 General Assembly, the Judicial Department, the Governor, and the
15 several administrative departments, boards, and commissions of
16 the State Government, and to institutions within the State, and
17 for all public purposes, classified by department or agency and
18 by program.
19 (ii) The estimated revenues or receipts from any and all
20 sources, and an estimated amount to be raised by taxation or
21 otherwise, including proposals for new revenues and receipts.
22 Any proposed increase in the rate of a tax, fee, revenue receipt
23 or item shall not exceed the average of the percentage increase
24 in the Statewide average weekly wage and the employment cost
25 index. The term "employment cost index" shall mean the most
26 recent official figures, for the previous twelve-month period
27 beginning July 1 and ending June 30 for the Employment Cost
28 Index Series for Elementary and Secondary Schools, reported by
29 the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Federal Department of
30 Labor.
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1 (2) A capital budget for the ensuing fiscal year setting
2 forth capital projects to be financed from the proceeds of
3 obligations of the Commonwealth or of its agencies or
4 authorities or from operating funds.
5 (3) A program and financial plan for not less than the prior
6 fiscal year, the current fiscal year, this budget year and the
7 four succeeding fiscal years, which plan shall include for each
8 such fiscal year:
9 (i) Actual or estimated operating expenditures classified by
10 department or agency and by program, in reasonable detail, and
11 actual or estimated revenue by major categories from existing
12 and additional sources.
13 (ii) Clearly stated purposes of each program in terms of
14 desired accomplishments.
15 (iii) Measures used to determine to what extent such program
16 has achieved its stated purposes.
17 (iv) Actual or estimated levels of accomplishment for each
18 program and actual or estimated levels of program activities and
19 their associated costs.
20 (v) Clearly stated purposes for each recommended new or
21 revised program, measures to be used to determine whether each
22 new or revised program has achieved its purpose, estimated
23 levels of additional or new accomplishment of each new or
24 revised program, estimated levels of additional activities for
25 each such program, and their associated costs.
26 (vi) When the Secretary of the Budget identifies a new or
27 expanded program by criteria used in the budget instructions,
28 the new or expanded program shall be displayed and justified as
29 a separate item in the Governor's budget request. A new program
30 shall not be considered to be enacted by the General Assembly in
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1 its first year unless it is specifically referred to or
2 displayed as a line item in an appropriation bill.
3 (4) The budget shall list as a single, separate line item
4 for each administrative department, board, and commission the
5 amount which the Governor recommends to be appropriated for the
6 ensuing fiscal year for public relations. For the purposes of
7 this clause, "public relations" shall include the preparation,
8 presentation and distribution of advertising, publications,
9 radio tapes, television films and tapes, and media releases. The
10 separate line item shall include all compensation, including
11 fringe benefits; all travel, meal, lodging, and similar
12 expenses; the cost of purchasing new equipment and supplies; the
13 cost of leasing offices and equipment; the cost of purchasing
14 material, including newspapers, magazines, movies, films and
15 tapes; the cost of using wire service equipment; and all other
16 similar public relations expenditures.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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