Pennsylvania HB 2094: An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, in Commonwealth budget procedures, further providing for revenue estimates.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 2690
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2094
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, HAMM, GREINER, STAMBAUGH, KAUFFMAN, KEPHART
AND GILLEN, DECEMBER 9, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, DECEMBER 9, 2025
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; providing for judicial administration; 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," in Commonwealth budget procedures, further
providing for revenue estimates.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 618(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
amended to read:
Section 618. Revenue Estimates.--(a) (1) The Department of
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Revenue in conjunction with the Secretary of the Budget shall
make revenue estimates for the use of the Governor in preparing
the budget with periodic revisions until the final estimate is
signed by the Governor not later than the time [he signs] the
general appropriation bill becomes law. The revenue estimates
used [to sign] in conjunction with any appropriation bill shall
show separately State revenues, Federal funds, and, if
specifically appropriated, funds from other sources. [The]
(2) If the Governor signs an appropriation bill, the
Governor shall item veto any part [of any appropriation bill]
that causes total appropriations to exceed the official revenue
estimate plus any unappropriated surplus.
(3) If the general appropriation bill becomes law without
the approval of the Governor and the amount appropriated in the
general appropriation bill and other appropriation bills exceeds
the official revenue estimate plus any unappropriated surplus,
the following shall apply:
(i) The Secretary of the Budget shall, no later than the
time that the general appropriation bill becomes law, disapprove
or reduce amounts under section 615 from the departments, boards
and commissions to which section 615 applies which cause the
total appropriations to exceed the official revenue estimate
plus any unappropriated surplus.
(ii) Except as provided under subclause (iii), at no time
during a fiscal year when this clause applies may the total
amount disapproved or reduced under this clause be less than the
total amount disapproved or reduced under this clause at the
time the general appropriation bill becomes law.
(iii) During a fiscal year in which this subclause applies,
if a change in a statute affecting revenues and receipts is
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enacted that results in a change in a revenue estimate, the
amounts disapproved or reduced under this clause may be revised
to account for the additional revenue.
(4) No changes in the [revenue estimates] official revenue
estimate shall be made thereafter unless changes in statutes
affecting revenues and receipts are enacted.
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Section 2. This act shall apply to general appropriation
acts enacted after the effective date of this section.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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