Bill Text: PA HB992 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the distribution of funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 38-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-22 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB992 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB992-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1580
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 992 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY KRIEGER, REESE, BARRAR, BEYER, CHRISTIANA, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DALLY, DAY, DELOZIER, DENLINGER, ELLIS, FARRY, GABLER, GRELL, GROVE, HENNESSEY, HUTCHINSON, MAHER, METCALFE, METZGAR, OBERLANDER, PYLE, QUINN, RAPP, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, ROHRER, ROSS, SAYLOR, STERN, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TURZAI, VULAKOVICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, APRIL 22, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 22, 2009
AN ACT
Providing for the distribution of funds under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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 American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Fund Distribution 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:
"American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009." The
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law
111-5, 123 Stat. 115).
Section 3. Distribution of funds.
(a) Review and evaluation.--Each State agency shall review
and evaluate whether the State agency is eligible for or would
request funding under any provision of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009. If any State agency determines it is
eligible and desires to receive funding under any provision of
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the State
agency shall notify the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of
the Senate, the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the House
of Representatives, the chairman and minority chairman of the
Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairman and
minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House
of Representatives, within ten days after the effective date of
this section, of the determination and shall provide the
following information in conjunction with the notification:
(1) The amount of funds the State agency desires to
receive under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009.
(2) Each of the titles and sections of the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 under which the desired
funds are provided.
(3) The requirements and deadline for applying for the
desired funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009.
(4) The requirements associated with the desired
funding, including spending limitations, State-matching or
cost-sharing requirements, percentage limitations and any
time requirements regarding expenditure of the funding.
(5) When the funding provided under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will end.
(6) If any additional State employees are necessary to
oversee or administer the funds received under the American
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Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and, if so, how many
full-time equivalent positions would be required.
(7) The number of potential jobs created by the use of
any funds received under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, including all rationales and
supporting data justifying the State agency's estimate of the
number of jobs to be created.
(8) A plan detailing how the funds received under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will be
expended and how the State agency will address the absence of
funding after the funding provided under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ends.
(b) Notification.--Each State agency that applies for and
receives or is approved to receive funds under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 shall notify the Majority
Leader and Minority Leader of the Senate, the Majority Leader
and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, the
chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee
of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman of the
Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives
immediately of the receipt or approval. Each State agency
expending funds received under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 shall make the expenditures in
accordance with the provisions of appropriation acts in
compliance with the provisions of applicable State statutes.
(c) Prohibition.--Under the act of June 29, 1976 (P.L.469,
No.117), entitled "An act relating to the fiscal affairs of the
Commonwealth concerning duties of the Governor, the Secretary of
Revenue and the Budget Secretary, with respect to the submission
of and signing the budget for any fiscal year; and, after a
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budget is enacted, regulating the issuance of warrants by the
State Treasurer for certain requisitioned funds and imposing
duties on persons authorized by law to issue requisitions for
the payment of moneys from the State Treasury; and prescribing
that Federal funds received by the Commonwealth shall be
deposited in the General Fund account with certain exceptions,"
on and after the effective date of this section, neither the
Governor nor any other State agency may expend any funding under
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 unless
appropriated by the General Assembly.
(d) Employment.--Any individual employed by a State agency
in connection with or as a result of funding received under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 shall be a
temporary employee, and the employment may not continue beyond
the expenditure of the funds received under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
(e) Limit.--No expenditures may be made by any State agency
of any funds received under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, and no State agency may enter into any
contract or other obligation to expend any amount in excess of
the actual amount of funds appropriated to the State agency
under State law.
Section 10. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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