PRINTER'S NO. 4317
No. 2854 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY MARKOSEK, BASTIAN, GEIST, LEDERER, PHILLIPS,
PISTELLA, READSHAW, WATSON, BUNT, LAUGHLIN, BEBKO-JONES,
TANGRETTI, GEORGE, CAWLEY, DeWEESE, FICHTER, STABACK, JAMES,
BARRAR, SOLOBAY, McILHATTAN, GODSHALL, NAILOR, GRUCELA,
DERMODY, HERMAN, MANN, LUCYK, B. SMITH, DALEY, MELIO,
SCHULER, BROWNE, CORRIGAN, E. Z. TAYLOR, ALLEN, SCHRODER,
HENNESSEY, S. MILLER, SHANER, SAINATO, BISHOP, RUBLEY,
MAYERNIK, CALTAGIRONE, SAYLOR, RUFFING, COSTA, R. STEVENSON,
McCALL, LESCOVITZ, YUDICHAK, T. ARMSTRONG, YOUNGBLOOD,
HORSEY, D. EVANS, HARHAI, YEWCIC, KAISER, FRANKEL, BROOKS,
JOSEPHS, TRELLO, BELFANTI, ROBERTS, O'BRIEN, HASAY,
STRITTMATTER AND THOMAS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for a Flight 93 Memorial registration
3 plate; and establishing the Flight 93 Memorial Trust 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. Flight 93 Memorial plate.
9 The department, in consultation with the Flight 93 Memorial
10 Organization, shall design a special Flight 93 Memorial
11 registration plate. Upon application of any person, accompanied
12 by a fee of $35 which shall be in addition to the annual
13 registration fee, the department shall issue the plate for a
1 passenger car, motor home, trailer or truck with a registered
2 gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds. The Flight 93
3 Memorial Trust Fund shall receive $15 of each additional fee for
4 this plate.
5 Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
6 subsection to read:
7 § 1905. Payments to special funds.
8 * * *
9 (d) Flight 93 Memorial Trust Fund.--Fifteen dollars of each
10 fee received under section 1361 (relating to Flight 93 Memorial
11 plate) shall be credited to the Flight 93 Memorial Trust Fund,
12 established as follows:
13 (1) There is hereby established a special account in the
14 State Treasury which shall be known as the Flight 93 Memorial
15 Trust Fund. The purpose of the Flight 93 Memorial Trust Fund
16 is to provide moneys for:
17 (i) The construction, operation and maintenance of a
18 physical monument, to be located in Somerset County on or
19 near the site where Flight 93 crashed on September 11,
20 2001, to memorialize and honor the innocent victims who
21 died aboard Flight 93.
22 (ii) Costs associated with operating and maintaining
23 the monument site, including any programs conducted at
24 the site for purposes of commemorating the victims of
25 Flight 93 or for related educational or patriotic
26 purposes.
27 (2) All moneys in the Flight 93 Memorial Trust Fund are
28 hereby annually appropriated to the Department of General
29 Services and may be expended for the purposes authorized
30 under this subsection.
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1 (3) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this
2 subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the
3 Department of General Services for the Governor's approval.
4 (4) The State Treasurer shall not honor any requisition
5 for expenditures by the Department of General Services in
6 excess of estimates approved by the Governor or in excess of
7 the amount available for the purposes for which the
8 requisition was made, whichever is the lesser amount.
9 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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