PRINTER'S NO. 3302
No. 2359 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY HALUSKA, BAKER, BALDWIN, BARRAR, BEBKO-JONES, BROWNE, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FREEMAN, GABIG, GEIST, GOOD, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HERMAN, HORSEY, HUTCHINSON, KOTIK, LAUGHLIN, LEACH, LESCOVITZ, MARKOSEK, McCALL, PAYNE, PICKETT, SAINATO, SCHRODER, SHANER, SOLOBAY, R. STEVENSON, TANGRETTI, TURZAI, WILT, WOJNAROSKI AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 9, 2004
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 9, 2004
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 2 Statutes, providing for a Fight Terrorism registration plate; 3 and establishing the Flight 93 Memorial Fund. 4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 hereby enacts as follows: 6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read: 8 § 1361. Fight Terrorism registration plate. 9 (a) Design.--The department shall design a special Fight 10 Terrorism registration plate. The design shall include the 11 following elements: 12 (1) A pentagon-shaped symbol which serves as a border. 13 (2) The terms "Fight Terrorism," "New York, N.Y.," 14 "Arlington, VA" and "Somerset, PA" on the outside of the 15 border. 16 (3) The date "9-11-01" with the number 11 represented by
1 a likeness of the World Trade Center buildings. 2 (4) A depiction of the American flag. 3 (b) Issuance.--Upon application of any person, accompanied 4 by a fee of $35 which shall be in addition to the annual 5 registration fee, the department shall issue the plate under 6 subsection (a) for a passenger car, motor home, trailer or truck 7 with a gross vehicle weight rating of not more than 9,000 8 pounds. The Flight 93 Memorial Fund shall receive $15 of each 9 additional fee for this plate. 10 Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a 11 subsection to read: 12 § 1905. Payments to special funds. 13 * * * 14 (d) Flight 93 Memorial Fund.--Fifteen dollars of each fee 15 collected under section 1361 (relating to Fight Terrorism 16 registration plate) shall be credited to the Flight 93 Memorial 17 Fund, established as follows: 18 (1) There is hereby established a special account in the 19 State Treasury which shall be known as the Flight 93 Memorial 20 Fund. The purpose of the Flight 93 Memorial Fund is to 21 provide moneys for: 22 (i) The construction, operation and maintenance of a 23 physical monument, to be located in Somerset County on or 24 near the site where Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 25 2001, to memorialize and honor the innocent victims who 26 died aboard Flight 93. 27 (ii) Costs associated with operating and maintaining 28 the monument site, including any programs conducted at 29 the site for purposes of commemorating the victims of 30 Flight 93 or for related educational or patriotic 20040H2359B3302 - 2 -
1 purposes. 2 (2) All moneys in the Flight 93 Memorial Fund are hereby 3 annually appropriated on a continuing basis to the Department 4 of General Services and may be expended for the purposes 5 authorized under this subsection. 6 (3) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this 7 subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the 8 Department of General Services for the Governor's approval. 9 (4) The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition 10 for expenditures by the Department of General Services in 11 excess of estimates approved by the Governor or in excess of 12 the amount available for the purposes for which the 13 requisition was made, whichever is the lesser amount. 14 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days. A15L75BIL/20040H2359B3302 - 3 -