Bill Text: PA SB472 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for State Transportation Commission.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-10 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [SB472 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB472-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 467
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 472 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, SCARNATI, YAW, ROBBINS, FOLMER, ORIE, KASUNIC, D. WHITE, EICHELBERGER, WAUGH, MENSCH, M. WHITE AND WARD, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 10, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
Executive Department thereof and the administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
officers, and of the several administrative departments,
boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
number and compensation of the deputies and all other
assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
commissions shall be determined," further providing for State
Transportation Commission.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2011 of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
amended by adding a subsection to read:
Section 2011. State Transportation Commission.--* * *
(c.1) In addition to the duties under subsection (c), the
commission shall ensure that:
(1) Federal funding received for highway and bridge
construction or improvement is expended solely for those
purposes; and
(2) no Federal funds are expended, directly or indirectly,
for purposes of, or in connection with, rapid transit and rapid
transit authorities, unless such purpose is specifically
authorized by Federal law as to those funds.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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