| PRINTER'S NO. 3086 |
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. | 2060 | Session of 2014 |
INTRODUCED BY KNOWLES, DAVIS, LUCAS, KOTIK, MAHONEY, KAUFFMAN, MUNDY, GINGRICH, WHITE, KORTZ, PETRARCA, ROCK, CLYMER, GOODMAN, MURT, GILLEN, MOUL AND EVERETT, MARCH 10, 2014
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, MARCH 10, 2014
AN ACT
1Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
2Consolidated Statutes, further providing for award of grants.
3The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4hereby enacts as follows:
5Section 1. Section 7813(b) of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
6Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7§ 7813. Award of grants.
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9(b) Limits.--
10(1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), grants shall be
11not less than $2,500 and not more than $15,000 per fire
12company.
13(2) Grants may be awarded on a pro rata basis if the
14total dollar amount of the approved application exceeds the
15amount of funds appropriated by the General Assembly for this
16purpose.
17(3) In a municipality where there are two or more
1volunteer fire companies and if two or more volunteer fire
2companies consolidated their use of equipment, firefighters
3and services [within five years preceding the date of the
4current year application submission deadline], the
5consolidated entity shall be deemed eligible to receive a
6grant not to exceed the amount of the combined total for
7which the individual companies would have been eligible had
8they not consolidated.
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10Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.