Pennsylvania HB 25: An Act amending Title 24 (Education) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, establishing the Adult Education Workforce Recovery Grant Program and the Adult Education and Workforce Recovery Grant Program Fund; and making a transfer.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 6
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 25
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, KHAN, SANCHEZ, VENKAT, BOROWSKI, PIELLI,
HILL-EVANS, GUENST, HADDOCK, DONAHUE, SCHLOSSBERG, FREEMAN,
HARKINS, WARREN, DELLOSO, KENYATTA AND CEPEDA-FREYTIZ,
JANUARY 8, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JANUARY 8, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in school finances, further providing
for fiscal year and for tax levy and limitations.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 671(b)(2) and 672(a) of the act of March
10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of
1949, are amended to read:
Section 671. Fiscal Year.--* * *
(b) * * *
(2) A school district that delays the adoption of its annual
budget under paragraph (1) shall adopt an annual budget no later
than [fifteen] thirty days subsequent to the enactment of
legislation providing the appropriation for basic education
funding to be paid as a reimbursement for the preceding year.
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Section 672. Tax Levy; Limitations.--(a) In all school
districts of the second, third, and fourth class, all school
taxes shall be levied and assessed by the board of school
directors therein, during the month of February or March or
April or May or June each year, or no later than [twenty]
thirty-five days following the enactment of legislation
providing the appropriation for basic education funding to be
paid as a reimbursement for the preceding school year, for the
ensuing fiscal year, except in districts of the second class
where the fiscal year begins on the first day of January, in
which the school taxes shall be levied and assessed during the
month of October or November of each year. In such school
districts the tax rate shall not exceed twenty-five mills on the
dollar, on the total amount of the assessed valuation of all
property taxable for school purposes therein. Each school
district of the second, third or fourth class may also collect a
per capita tax on each resident or inhabitant of such district
over eighteen years of age, as herein provided.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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