PRINTER'S NO. 2423
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1591
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY MOUL, CUTLER, BLOOM, GROVE, LAWRENCE, B. MILLER,
McGINNIS, KLUNK, BAKER, BOBACK, DUSH, PICKETT, HELM,
M. K. KELLER, KAUFFMAN, ROAE, O'NEILL, KAUFER, WATSON,
MARSICO, KILLION, PHILLIPS-HILL, MILLARD, SAYLOR, GREINER,
TOPPER, GILLEN, HICKERNELL, MENTZER, CAUSER, TALLMAN,
MACKENZIE, ROSS, D. PARKER, REGAN, JAMES, A. HARRIS, QUINN,
TOOHIL AND GINGRICH, OCTOBER 21, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, OCTOBER 21, 2015
AN ACT
Making an appropriation from the General Fund to the Department
of Agriculture for the purpose of agricultural research for
the fiscal year July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The following sum, or as much thereof as may be
necessary, is specifically appropriated from the General Fund to
the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year July 1, 2015,
to June 30, 2016, for the purpose and in the amount shown:
For agricultural research.
State appropriation....... 1,587,000
Section 2. From funds appropriated under section 1, at least
$300,000 shall be used for an agricultural resource center in
conjunction with a land-grant university and at least $800,000
shall be used for an animal diagnostic laboratory affiliated
with a university located in a city of the first class to
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increase the capacity to address avian flu and other animal
disease outbreaks.
Section 3. Except as otherwise provided by law the
appropriation in this act unexpended, uncommitted or
unencumbered as of June 30, 2016, shall automatically lapse as
of that date.
Section 4. This act shall apply retroactively to July 1,
2015.
Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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