HB 492 — An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, in fiscal supplements to statutory programs, repealing provisions relating to regulation of rodeos or rodeo-related events.

PRINTER'S NO.   481

                  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                      HOUSE BILL
                      No. 492
                                             Session of
                                               2025

     INTRODUCED BY DEASY, GIRAL, POWELL, HILL-EVANS, McNEILL,
        NEILSON, SANCHEZ, DALEY, STEELE, HANBIDGE AND MADDEN,
        FEBRUARY 5, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, FEBRUARY 5, 2025


                                  AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled
 2      "An act relating to the finances of the State government;
 3      providing for cancer control, prevention and research, for
 4      ambulatory surgical center data collection, for the Joint
 5      Underwriting Association, for entertainment business
 6      financial management firms, for private dam financial
 7      assurance and for reinstatement of item vetoes; providing for
 8      the settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes,
 9      bonus, and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the
10      collection and recovery of fees and other money or property
11      due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
12      including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
13      the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
14      and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
15      Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
16      Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
17      courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
18      Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
19      all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
20      moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
21      and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
22      authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
23      to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
24      section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
25      Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
26      certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
27      department, board, commission, and officer of the State
28      government, every political subdivision of the State, and
29      certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
30      association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
31      collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
32      imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
33      other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
 1      every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
 2      Commonwealth," in fiscal supplements to statutory programs,
 3      repealing provisions relating to regulation of rodeos or
 4      rodeo-related events.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    Section 8041 of the act of April 9, 1929
 8   (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, is repealed:
 9   [Section 8041.   Regulation of rodeos or rodeo-related events.
10      (a)   Prior regulation.--Any ordinance, rule or regulation
11   adopted by a municipality before the effective date of this
12   subsection that regulates the use of any practice, technique or
13   device necessary for the purposes of holding a ticketed, public
14   rodeo or rodeo-related event shall permit a rodeo hosting entity
15   to conduct a rodeo or rodeo-related event on up to 12 days per
16   calendar year. The rodeo hosting entity shall have sole
17   discretion to select the 12 days per calendar year on which to
18   hold a rodeo or rodeo-related event during which the ordinance,
19   rule or regulation specified in this subsection shall not apply.
20      (b)   Continuing regulation.--Any ordinance, rule or
21   regulation adopted by a municipality on or after the effective
22   date of this subsection that regulates the use of any practice,
23   technique or device necessary for the purposes of holding a
24   ticketed, public rodeo or rodeo-related event shall permit a
25   rodeo hosting entity to conduct a rodeo or rodeo-related event
26   on up to 12 days per calendar year. The rodeo hosting entity
27   shall have sole discretion to select the 12 days per calendar
28   year on which to hold a rodeo or rodeo-related event, during
29   which the ordinance, rule or regulation specified in this
30   subsection shall not apply.
31      (c)   Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
32   words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this

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 1   subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
 2      "Municipality."   A county, city, borough, incorporated town,
 3   township, home rule charter, original charter, optional plan
 4   municipality or any similar purpose unit of government that may
 5   be created by the General Assembly.
 6      "Rodeo hosting entity."   An entity that:
 7          (1)   is a nationally recognized professional entity that
 8      produces or operates rodeo or rodeo-related events in at
 9      least 10 states annually; and
10          (2)   produces or operates a ticketed, public rodeo or
11      rodeo-related event in a venue with a capacity of no less
12      than 2,500 seats.]
13      Section 2.   This act shall take effect immediately.




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