Bill Text: PA SB757 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring forfeiture of salaries for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Cabinet members and members of the General Assembly for failure to pass a timely budget.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-11 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [SB757 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB757-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 828
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 757 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY STACK, BREWSTER, BOSCOLA, RAFFERTY, KASUNIC, WARD AND BRUBAKER, MARCH 11, 2011
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 11, 2011
AN ACT
Requiring forfeiture of salaries for the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Cabinet members and members of the General Assembly
for failure to pass a timely budget.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Salary forfeiture.
(a) Salaries to be withheld.--In the event that a balanced
operating budget, including a General Appropriation Act and a
General Revenue Act or acts, if necessary, has not be enacted by
12 midnight on the final day of any fiscal year, the Secretary
of the Budget, the Chief Clerk of the Senate and the Chief Clerk
of the House of Representatives shall withhold all salaries for
the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Cabinet members and members
of the General Assembly.
(b) Procedure.--In the event that a budget is not passed in
accordance with subsection (a), the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Cabinet members and members of the General Assembly
shall forfeit a proportional amount of pay for each day that the
budget is not passed. There shall be no retroactive repayment of
salary once the budget is passed. The Secretary of the Budget,
the Chief Clerk of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House
of Representatives shall determine the amount of pay to be
forfeited and shall transfer the forfeited salary to the General
Fund.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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