Pennsylvania HB 674: An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, implementing the 2017-2018 Commonwealth budget and instituting future budget implementation: further providing for title of act; in Department of Revenue: providing for lottery winnings intercept; providing for ambulatory surgical center data collection and for Joint Underwriting Association; in Treasury Department: providing for provisions for General Assembly; in Department of Auditor General: further providing for agencies receiving State aid and providing for audits of interstate commissions; in procedure for the disbursement of money from the State Treasury: further providing for settlement agreements and enforcement actions; in financially distressed municipalities: providing for payroll tax; in oil and gas wells: further providing for definitions, providing for Oil and Gas Lease Fund, repealing provisions relating to oil and gas operations in the South Newark Basin and providing for temporary cessation of oil and gas wells; in transportation network companies and motor carrier companies: providing for regulation of taxicabs and limousines by parking authority of city of the first class, for penalties and for provision of transportation network service; in Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development and Tourism Fund: further providing for other grants; in Tobacco Settlement Fund: further providing for use of fund; in Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund: further providing for definitions, for fund and for distributions from fund; in miscellaneous limitations and transfers: further providing for drug and alcohol programs and providing for Workers' Compensation Security Fund; in Natural Gas Infrastructure Development Fund: further providing for definitions and for transfer of funds; providing for First Chance Trust Fund; in 2016-2017 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts: repealing provisions relating to fund transfers; in general budget implementation: further providing for Department of Agriculture, for Department of Community and Economic Development, for Department of Education, for Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, for Department of Human Services, for Commonwealth Financing Authority Restricted Revenue Account and for surcharges, providing for Multimodal Transportation Fund, further providing for Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and providing for sales by distilleries, for Liquor Code suspension for deficiency, for State Employees' Retirement System Restricted Account and for Public School Employees' Retirement System Restricted Account; in school district debt refinancing bonds: further providing for sinking fund charges for school building projects and for Public School Building Construction and Reconstruction Advisory Committee; repealing provisions relating to 2012-2013 budget implementation and 2012-2013 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; providing for 2017-2018 budget implementation and for 2017-2018 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; making an editorial change; and making related repeals.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 688
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 674
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY McNEILL, GIRAL, WAXMAN, HILL-EVANS, PIELLI,
SANCHEZ, SCHLOSSBERG, CERRATO, RIVERA, D. WILLIAMS, SCHWEYER
AND CIRESI, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in sustainable mobility options,
establishing the Supplemental Public Transportation Operating
Assistance Allocation for Growing Counties Grant Program.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 74 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1517.2. Supplemental Public Transportation Operating
Assistance Allocation for Growing Counties Grant
Program.
(a) Establishment.--The Supplemental Public Transportation
Operating Assistance Allocation for Growing Counties Grant
Program is established in the department.
(b) Powers and duties of department.--The department:
(1) Shall administer the program.
(2) Shall establish an annual operating assistance grant
application process for applicants.
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(3) To the extent that money is appropriated or
otherwise made available to the department for the program,
shall provide operating assistance to eligible entities.
(4) M ay develop guidelines specifying additional
requirements for grants available under the program.
(c) Eligible entities.--
(1) The following entities are eligible to apply for a
grant under the program:
(i) an entity that is a recipient of grants awarded
by the department under section 1513 (relating to
operating program) or 1516 (relating to programs of
Statewide significance) and meets the criteria for a
county growing in population under subsection (e); or
(ii) an entity that is a recipient of grants awarded
by the department under section 1513 or 1516 and meets
the criteria for a county growing in employment under
subsection (d).
(2) An eligible entity that meets the requirements under
subsection (d) or (e), or both, may submit one application
annually for grants under the program.
(d) Grants to county growing in employment.--
(1) Total employment growth for each county for the
application grant year shall be calculated by the department
using the most recent complete annual data for local area
unemployment statistics from the Department of Labor and
Industry for the previous year and the same figure from five
years prior, calculated on a percentage basis.
(2) The amount of grant money awarded to an eligible
entity shall be determined on the basis of the overall
percentage growth for that county over the subject
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calculation period and awarded to each eligible entity as a
proportional share of the overall amount available for
distribution to counties growing in employment.
(e) Grants to county growing in population.--
(1) Total population for each county for the application
grant year and for the five years prior shall be determined
by the department using the most recent complete annual data
from the American Community Survey conducted by the United
States Census Bureau.
(2) The amount of money awarded to an eligible entity
shall be determined on the basis of the overall percentage
growth for that county over the subject calculation period
and awarded to each eligible entity as a proportional share
of the overall amount available for distribution to counties
growing in population.
(f) Appropriations.--
(1) Money appropriated for the purpose of awarding
grants under the program shall be in addition to any money
allocated under section 1513 or 1516.
(2) Money appropriated to the department for the program
shall be allocated annually, based upon eligible applications
as follows:
(i) Fifty percent to eligible entities within
counties growing in employment.
(ii) Fifty percent to eligible entities within
counties growing in population.
(g) Use of grant money.--Grants awarded under the program
are subject to the same purposes, limitations, conditions and
requirements specified in section 1513 or 1516.
(h) Local match requirement limitation.--The department may
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not require a local match requirement greater than the match
requirement under section 1513(d).
(i) Definitions.--The following words and phrases when used
in this section shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"American Community Survey." An ongoing annual survey by the
United States Census Bureau that publishes and collects data on
the population of the United States in accordance with 13 U.S.C.
§§ 141 (relating to population and other census information) and
193 (relating to preliminary and supplemental statistics)