HB 453 — An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, implementing the 2017-2018 Commonwealth budget and instituting future budget implementation: in Treasury Department, providing for provisions for General Assembly; in Department of Auditor General, further providing for audits of agencies receiving State aid and providing for audits of interstate commissions; in procedure for the disbursement of money from the State Treasury, further providing for settlement agreements and enforcement actions; in oil and gas wells, further providing for definitions, providing for Oil and Gas Lease Fund and further providing for oil and gas operations in the South Newark Basin; in transportation network companies and motor carrier companies, providing for regulation of taxicabs and limousines by parking authority of city of the first class, for penalties and for provision of transportation network service; in Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Fund, further providing for transfer; in Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development and Tourism Fund, further providing for other grants; in Tobacco Settlement Fund, further providing for use of fund; in Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund, further providing for definitions, for fund and for distributions from fund; in miscellaneous limitations and transfers, further providing for drug and alcohol programs and providing for Workers' Compensation Security Fund; in 2016-2017 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts, repealing provisions relating to fund transfers; in general budget implementation, further providing for Department of Community and Economic Development, for Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, for Department of Human Services and for Commonwealth Financing Authority Restricted Revenue Account and providing for State Employees' Retirement System Restricted Account and for Public School Employees' Retirement System Restricted Account; in school district debt refinancing bonds, further providing for sinking fund charges for school building projects, for limitation on new applications for Department of Education approval of public school building projects and for Public School Building Construction and Reconstruction Advisory Committee; providing for Tobacco Annuity Liquidation; repealing provisions relating to 2012-2013 budget implementation and 2012-2013 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; providing for 2017-2018 budget implementation and for 2017-2018 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; making an editorial change; and making related repeals.

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1241453 THE2017 GENERALINTRODUCED ASSEMBLYBY OFRYAN, PENNSYLVANIACUTLER, HOUSEDUNBAR, BILLDUSH, SessionGABLER, GROVE, JOZWIAK, MILLARD, SAYLOR, SCHWEYER AND WARD, FEBRUARY 13, 2017 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 13, 2017 AN ACT Amending the act of No.April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled, as amended, "An act relating to the finances of the State government;

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providing for the settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes, bonus, and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the collection and recovery of fees and other money or property due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof, including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale, the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds and securities belonging to or in the possession of the Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and the Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealtho and all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof, and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth, authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of certain debt and imposing penalties;

Any person, association, corporation or public agency being <-- audited under this section shall respond to the audit within 120 days.

20170HB0453PN1241 - 2 - IF AN AUDIT COMPLETED BY THE DEPARTMENT UNDER THIS SECTION <-- MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS, ANY PERSON, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, OR PUBLIC AGENCY BEING AUDITED SHALL SUBMIT A RESPONSE TO THE DEPARTMENT DETAILING ADOPTION OF SUCH RECOMMENDATIONS, OR THE REASON WHY RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN ADOPTED, WITHIN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BUSINESS DAYS OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE AUDIT.

THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE NOTICE TO THE SUBJECT OF AN AUDIT SIXTY BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF THE AUDIT'S PUBLICATION THAT FUTURE APPROPRIATIONS COULD BE DENIED FOR THE PERSON, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, OR PUBLIC AGENCY IF A RESPONSE IS NOT MADE.

UPON RECEIVING A RESPONSE TO AN AUDIT, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE RESPONSE ACCOMPANIED BY ANY COMMENTS THE DEPARTMENT MAY WISH TO SUBMIT.

THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY CONSIDER THIS RESPONSE WHEN DETERMINING WHETHER FUTURE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE PERSON, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, OR PUBLIC AGENCY WILL BE CONSIDERED.

IF THE PERSON, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, OR PUBLIC AGENCY DOES NOT RESPOND TO THE DEPARTMENT WITHIN ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BUSINESS DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE AUDIT, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY THE GOVERNOR AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

THE 20170HB0453PN1241 - 3 - GOVERNOR AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE AND THE CHAIRPERSON AND MINORITY CHAIRPERSON OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY CONSIDER A FAILURE TO RESPOND TO THE AUDIT WHEN DETERMINING WHETHER FUTURE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE PERSON, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, OR PUBLIC AGENCY WILL BE CONSIDERED.

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