PRINTER'S NO. 799
No. 672 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, ERICKSON, FERLO, STACK AND WONDERLING,
MAY 10, 2005
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, MAY 10, 2005
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," further providing for annual budget;
6 prescribing a penalty; and making editorial changes.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 687(a) of the act of March 10, 1949
10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is
11 amended to read:
12 Section 687. Annual Budget; Additional or Increased
13 Appropriations; Transfer of Funds.--(a) (1) The board of
14 school directors of each school district of the second, third,
15 or fourth class shall, annually, at least thirty (30) days prior
16 to the adoption of the annual budget, prepare a proposed budget
17 of the amount of funds that will be required by the school
18 district in its several departments for the following fiscal
19 year. Such proposed budget shall be prepared on a uniform form,
1 prepared and furnished by the Department of [Public Instruction]
2 Education, and shall be apportioned to the several classes of
3 expenditures of the district as the board of school directors
4 thereof may determine. Final action shall not be taken on any
5 proposed budget[,] in which the estimated expenditures exceed
6 two thousand dollars ($2000)[,] until after ten (10) days'
7 public notice. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent
8 any school district[,] whose total estimated expenditures do not
9 exceed two thousand dollars ($2000)[,] from holding a public
10 hearing.
11 (2) (i) The proposed budget in the format required by the
12 Department of Education and all line item expenditures shall be
13 printed[,] or otherwise made available for public inspection and
14 duplication to all persons [who may interest themselves,] at
15 least twenty (20) days prior to the date set for the adoption of
16 the budget.
17 (ii) Fees for duplication under this paragraph by
18 photocopying, printing from electronic media or microfilm,
19 copying onto electronic media, transmission by facsimile or
20 other electronic means and other means of duplication must be
21 reasonable and based on prevailing fees for comparable
22 duplication services provided by local business entities.
23 (iii) An agency or public official who violates this
24 paragraph with the intent and purpose of violating this
25 paragraph commits a summary offense subject to prosecution by
26 the Attorney General or the appropriate district attorney and
27 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less
28 than fifty dollars ($50) per day nor more than three hundred
29 dollars ($300) per day, plus costs of prosecution.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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