Bill Text: PA HB2558 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the timely passage of appropriation and revenue bills.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-04 - Referred to APPROPRIATIONS [HB2558 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2558-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3848
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2558 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY BARBIN, DeLUCA, MAHONEY, SOLOBAY, PETRARCA, HARHAI, READSHAW, KOTIK, W. KELLER, D. COSTA, MATZIE, BURNS, HALUSKA, GOODMAN AND KORTZ, JUNE 4, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, JUNE 4, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of September 30, 1983 (P.L.160, No.39),
entitled "An act establishing salaries and compensation of
certain public officials including justices and judges of
Statewide courts, judges of courts of common pleas, judges of
the Philadelphia Municipal Court, judges of the Philadelphia
Traffic Court, district justices and the Governor, the
Lieutenant Governor, the State Treasurer, the Auditor
General, the Attorney General and certain other State
officers and the salary and certain expenses of the members
of the General Assembly; and repealing certain inconsistent
acts," providing for the timely passage of appropriation and
revenue bills.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of September 30, 1983 (P.L.160, No.39),
known as the Public Official Compensation Law, is amended by
adding a section to read:
Section 1.1. Timely passage of appropriation and revenue bills.
Pennsylvania taxes and revenues are the common property of
all its citizens and every citizen has a right to, including
enactment of, a timely general appropriation act and timely
revenue acts. In the event that a general appropriation act and
a general revenue act or acts have not been enacted within 31
days of the beginning of a new fiscal year, the immediate past
year appropriation act and revenue act or acts shall be imposed
by operation of law until such time as the new fiscal year
appropriation act and the new fiscal year revenue act or acts
have been passed by both houses of the General Assembly and
signed by the Governor.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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