HB 2080 — An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, in powers and duties in general, further providing for disposition of unserviceable personal property, surplus or unserviceable road, bridge materials or equipment.

PRINTER'S NO.   2669

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 2080
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY OLSOMMER, WATRO, PICKETT, BANTA, PROBST, ROWE,
        PUGH, WALSH AND SMITH, DECEMBER 4, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, DECEMBER 5, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
 2      "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
 3      executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
 4      Executive Department thereof and the administrative
 5      departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
 6      including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
 7      Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
 8      authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
 9      departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10      duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11      officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12      boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13      Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14      and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15      certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16      other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17      and commissions; providing for judicial administration; and
18      prescribing the manner in which the number and compensation
19      of the deputies and all other assistants and employes of
20      certain departments, boards and commissions shall be
21      determined," in powers and duties in general, further
22      providing for disposition of unserviceable personal property,
23      surplus or unserviceable road, bridge materials or equipment.
24      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25   hereby enacts as follows:
26      Section 1.    Section 510 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
27   No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended to
28   read:
 1      Section 510.     Disposition of Unserviceable Personal Property;
 2   Surplus or Unserviceable Road, Bridge Materials or Equipment.--
 3   [Whenever] (a)    Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever
 4   any furnishings, or other personal property of this
 5   Commonwealth, shall be no longer of service to the Commonwealth,
 6   [it shall be the duty of] the department, board, or commission[,
 7   in whose] in possession [such] of the property [shall be or
 8   come, to put such] shall place the property into the custody of
 9   the Department of [Property and Supplies: Provided, however,
10   That in] General Services.
11      (1)    In the case of any perishable property which is not in
12   the city of Harrisburg, the department, board, or commission[,
13   having possession of the same,] in possession of the perishable
14   property may sell it in such manner, and upon such terms, as the
15   head of the department, [or the] board, or commission, may
16   determine[: And provided further, That any].
17      (2)    Any road or bridge [materials] material or equipment
18   located in a political subdivision that [have] has been declared
19   surplus or unserviceable by the Department of [Highways]
20   Transportation shall be subject to the following:
21      (i)    The material or equipment shall be first offered free of
22   charge to the political subdivision, provided the political
23   subdivision agrees to transport the material or equipment from
24   the site.
25      (ii)     If the political subdivision fails to agree, the
26   material or equipment shall be offered for sale to [counties,
27   cities, boroughs, incorporated towns and townships] other
28   political subdivisions at the best available price by the
29   Department of [Property and Supplies.] General Services.
30      (iii)    Written notification of the availability of [such] the

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 1   material and equipment shall be given to all [counties, cities,
 2   boroughs, incorporated towns and townships] political
 3   subdivisions in the highway district in which [such] the
 4   material and equipment was last used.
 5      (iv)     If more than one [such] of the political [subdivision]
 6   subdivisions requests the same material or equipment, any sale
 7   shall be made to the political subdivision making the highest
 8   letter bid. [No sale shall]
 9      (v)     A sale may not be consummated until after a minimum of
10   fifteen (15) days from the date of mailing the notification.
11      (vi)     All [such] of the material and equipment shall be used
12   by the procuring political subdivision upon roads, streets and
13   bridges.
14      (vii)     All moneys received for [such] the sale of the
15   material and equipment shall be deposited in the Motor License
16   Fund.
17      (b)     (1)   Millings collected from a road or bridge project
18   located in a political subdivision shall be first offered free
19   of charge to the political subdivision, provided the political
20   subdivision agrees to collect and transport the millings from a
21   location determined by the Department of Transportation. If the
22   political subdivision declines the offer, the millings shall be
23   offered for sale as required by this section.
24      (2)     Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3), millings
25   obtained by a political subdivision under paragraph (1) shall be
26   used by the political subdivision for road, bridge and other
27   projects within the political subdivision.
28      (3)     If a political subdivision obtains millings as described
29   in paragraph (1) and is unable to make use of the millings as
30   described in paragraph (2), the political subdivision may sell

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 1   the millings. All money received from the sale of millings by
 2   the political subdivision shall be remitted to the Department of
 3   Transportation for deposit into the Motor License Fund.
 4      (4)     For purposes of this subsection, the term "political
 5   subdivision" does not include a county.
 6      (c)     As used in this section:
 7      "Millings" means fragments of recyclable road surface
 8   materials produced and collected during the removal of a road
 9   surface.
10      "Political subdivision" means a county, city, borough,
11   incorporated town or township.
12      "Unserviceable [property," as used in this section, shall]
13   property" does not include products manufactured, grown, or
14   raised, by any department, board, or commission, or by the
15   inmates or patients of any State institution, or minerals, oil,
16   gas, or other materials, taken from any property of the
17   Commonwealth. [It shall include] The term includes only articles
18   previously purchased by the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
19   and paid for out of funds of or in the control of the
20   Commonwealth.
21      Section 2.     This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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