Bill Text: PA HB1416 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to submit annual reports relating to certain restricted accounts in the State Treasury.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 72-8)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-26 - Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY [HB1416 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1416-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1690
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1416 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY EVANKOVICH, REESE, AUMENT, BENNINGHOFF, BLOOM, BOYD, BROOKS, CAUSER, CHRISTIANA, D. COSTA, COX, CUTLER, DAY, DENLINGER, DiGIROLAMO, DUNBAR, ELLIS, EMRICK, EVERETT, FARRY, GABLER, GEIST, GEORGE, GILLEN, GINGRICH, GRELL, GROVE, HACKETT, HAHN, HARHAI, HARHART, HARPER, HARRIS, HEFFLEY, HELM, HENNESSEY, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, M. K. KELLER, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KRIEGER, LAWRENCE, MALONEY, MARSHALL, MASSER, METCALFE, METZGAR, MILLER, MULLERY, MUSTIO, NEUMAN, OBERLANDER, PASHINSKI, PEIFER, PERRY, PETRARCA, PICKETT, PYLE, QUIGLEY, QUINN, RAPP, REED, REICHLEY, ROAE, SACCONE, CULVER, SCHRODER, SIMMONS, STEPHENS, STERN, STEVENSON, TALLMAN, TOBASH, TOOHIL, TRUITT AND VULAKOVICH, APRIL 28, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, APRIL 28, 2011
AN ACT
Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to submit
annual reports relating to certain restricted accounts in the
State Treasury.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Department of
Environmental Protection Restricted Account Reporting Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Department." The Department of Environmental Protection of
the Commonwealth.
"Restricted accounts." The following funds within the State
Treasury:
(1) The Clean Water Fund established under the act of
June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known as The Clean Streams
Law.
(2) The Solid Waste Abatement Fund established under the
act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid
Waste Management Act.
(3) The Clean Air Fund established under the act of
January 8, 1960 (1959 P.L.2119, No.787), known as the Air
Pollution Control Act.
Section 3. Duty to submit annual report.
No later than July 1, 2012, and every July 1 thereafter, the
department shall submit to the Governor and the General Assembly
an annual report of the revenues received and projects funded
resulting from fines, civil penalties and other fees deposited
into the restricted accounts.
Section 4. Contents of annual report.
(a) General rule.--The annual report required by section 3
shall include the following information for each restricted
account:
(1) The amount of fines, civil penalties and fees
deposited into the restricted account.
(2) A listing of all grants, loans and other expenses
paid from the restricted account, including the name of each
grant recipient, location and description of the project
financed by the grant, the amount of funds from all sources
allocated to the project and the expiration date of the
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project.
(b) Publication.--The department shall publish and maintain
the annual report on the department's publicly accessible
Internet website.
(c) Electronic submission.--At the discretion of the
department, the annual report required under section 3 may be
submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly by electronic
mail.
Section 5. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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