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.

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
 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 Commonwealth budget procedures, further
22      providing for revenue estimates.
23      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24   hereby enacts as follows:
25      Section 1.    Section 618(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
26   (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
27   amended to read:
28      Section 618.    Revenue Estimates.--(a)     (1)   The Department of
 1   Revenue in conjunction with the Secretary of the Budget shall
 2   make revenue estimates for the use of the Governor in preparing
 3   the budget with periodic revisions until the final estimate is
 4   signed by the Governor not later than the time [he signs] the
 5   general appropriation bill becomes law. The revenue estimates
 6   used [to sign] in conjunction with any appropriation bill shall
 7   show separately State revenues, Federal funds, and, if
 8   specifically appropriated, funds from other sources. [The]
 9      (2)    If the Governor signs an appropriation bill, the
10   Governor shall item veto any part [of any appropriation bill]
11   that causes total appropriations to exceed the official revenue
12   estimate plus any unappropriated surplus.
13      (3)    If the general appropriation bill becomes law without
14   the approval of the Governor and the amount appropriated in the
15   general appropriation bill and other appropriation bills exceeds
16   the official revenue estimate plus any unappropriated surplus,
17   the following shall apply:
18      (i)    The Secretary of the Budget shall, no later than the
19   time that the general appropriation bill becomes law, disapprove
20   or reduce amounts under section 615 from the departments, boards
21   and commissions to which section 615 applies which cause the
22   total appropriations to exceed the official revenue estimate
23   plus any unappropriated surplus.
24      (ii)    Except as provided under subclause (iii), at no time
25   during a fiscal year when this clause applies may the total
26   amount disapproved or reduced under this clause be less than the
27   total amount disapproved or reduced under this clause at the
28   time the general appropriation bill becomes law.
29      (iii)    During a fiscal year in which this subclause applies,
30   if a change in a statute affecting revenues and receipts is

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 1   enacted that results in a change in a revenue estimate, the
 2   amounts disapproved or reduced under this clause may be revised
 3   to account for the additional revenue.
 4      (4)   No changes in the [revenue estimates] official revenue
 5   estimate shall be made thereafter unless changes in statutes
 6   affecting revenues and receipts are enacted.
 7      * * *
 8      Section 2.   This act shall apply to general appropriation
 9   acts enacted after the effective date of this section.
10      Section 3.   This act shall take effect immediately.




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