Sen. Ryan Aument

An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, in emergency COVID-19 response, further providing for money in account, providing for elementary and secondary school emergency relief for school districts, charter schools and cyber charter schools, for emergency relief for other educational entities, for emergency education relief to non public schools, for funding for library services and for allocation from ARPA - Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief - Administration, further providing for Department of Health and for use of money, providing for Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and establishing the Construction Cost Relief Program; in Rental and Utility Assistance Grant Program, further providing for Rental and Utility Assistance Grant Program, for department and for reallocation of grants; providing for American Rescue Plan Rental and Utility Assistance Grant Program, for Homeowners Assistance Grant Program, for Water Assistance Program and for Child Care Stabilization Program; in bonus and tax reports and returns and reports and records relating to tax collection, further providing for confidential information; in oil and gas wells, further providing for Oil and Gas Lease Fund; providing for Angel Investment Venture Capital Program and for Transportation Pilot Programs; in special funds, further providing for funding and for expiration; in additional special funds and restricted accounts, further providing for establishment of special fund and account, for use of fund and for distributions from Pennsylvania Race Horse Development Fund and providing for Opioid Settlement Restricted Account; providing for 2021-2022 budget implementation and for 2021-2022 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts; in general budget implementation, further providing for Department of Education, for Department of General Services, for Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, for Department of Labor and Industry, further providing for Department of Human Services, providing for State employees' Retirement System, further providing for Multimodal Transportation Fund and providing for Public Transportation Trust Fund; in school district debt refinancing bonds, further providing for sinking fund charges for school building projects; in 2020-2021 restrictions on appropriations for funds and accounts, further providing for fund transfers; and making related repeals.

An Act amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, in sales and use tax, further providing for exclusions from tax; in personal income tax, further providing for classes of income, for withholding tax requirement for nonemployer payors, for information statement for nonemployer payors and for information statement for payees, providing for electronic payment, further providing for requirements concerning returns, notices, records and statements and for additions, penalties and fees; in corporate net income tax, further providing for definitions; in bank and trust company shares tax, further providing for definitions; in realty transfer tax, correcting a scrivener's error relating to credits against tax; in tax credit eligibility, further providing for definitions and for eligibility and providing for application and administration, for assessment, for administering agency training, for broker registration, for tax credit and tax benefit reports, for allocation of tax credits or tax benefits awarded upon appeal and for guidelines; in research and development tax credit, further providing for credit for research and development expenses, for carryover, carryback, refund and assignment of credit and for report to General Assembly; in entertainment production tax credit, further providing for definitions, for credit for qualified film production expenses, for reissuance of film production tax credits, for definitions and for limitations and providing for Pennsylvania live events industry COVID-19 emergency assistance; further providing for application and approval of tax credit; in keystone opportunity zones, keystone opportunity expansion zones and keystone opportunity improvement zones, providing for extension for keystone opportunity expansion zone and further providing for additional keystone opportunity expansion zones; in mixed-use development tax credit, further providing for mixed-use development tax credits; in keystone innovations zones, further providing for keystone innovation zone tax credits and for annual report; in Pennsylvania Housing Tax Credit, further providing for Pennsylvania Housing Tax Credit and for annual report; in table game taxes, repealing provisions relating to expiration; in procedure and administration, further providing for petition for reassessment, for petition procedure and for review by board; in computer data center equipment incentive program, further providing for definitions and providing for applicability and for sales and use tax exemption program; in general provisions, further providing for bad checks, electronic funds transfers not credited upon transmission, additions to tax; imposing duties on the Department of Revenue; and making editorial changes.

An Act amending the act of April 17, 2016 (P.L.84, No.16), known as the Medical Marijuana Act, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in program, further providing for lawful use of medical marijuana; in practitioners, further providing for duration; in patients, further providing for caregivers; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for permits, for relocation and for convictions prohibited; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking, for grower/processors, for storage and transportation and for laboratory; in dispensaries, further providing for dispensing to patients and caregivers and for facility requirements; in tax on medical marijuana, further providing for Medical Marijuana Program Fund; in administration, further providing for temporary regulations; in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board and for regulations based on recommendations of advisory board; in offenses related to medical marijuana, further providing for disclosure of information prohibited; in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for academic clinical research centers and for clinical registrants; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for applicability.

An Act to provide appropriations from the General Fund for the expenses of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth, the public debt and the public schools for the fiscal year July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021; to provide appropriations from special funds and accounts to the Executive and Judicial Departments for the fiscal year July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, and for the payment of bills remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021; to provide for the appropriation of Federal funds to the Executive and Judicial Departments for the fiscal year July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, and for the payment of bills remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021; and to provide for the additional appropriation of Federal and State funds to the Executive and Judicial Departments for the fiscal year July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020.

An Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in sentencing, further providing for sexual offender treatment.

An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, in administrative organization, further providing for executive officers, administrative departments and independent administrative boards and commissions, for departmental administrative boards, commissions and offices, for department heads and for gubernatorial appointments; in organization of independent administrative boards and commissions, further providing for Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; in organization of departmental administrative boards and commissions and of advisory boards and commissions, repealing provisions relating to Board of License Private Bankers; providing for the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and for flood plain management by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency; in Commonwealth agency fees, further providing for Department of Banking and for Pennsylvania Securities Commission; in Independent Fiscal Office, further providing for definitions, for revenue estimates and for additional duties; in powers and duties of the Governor and other Constitutional officers of the Executive Board and of the Pennsylvania State Police, further providing for Auditor General; in powers and duties of the Department of State and its departmental administrative board, further providing for powers and duties in general and providing for equity reporting; in powers and duties of the Department of Justice and its departmental administrative boards, providing for duty of Attorney General to defend actions; in powers and duties of the Department of Banking, further providing for powers and duties in general for banking supervisory powers and for banking laws; in powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Resources, its officers and departmental and advisory boards and commissions, providing for general permit for transfer, storage or processing of oil and gas liquid waste; in powers and duties of Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, providing for Project 70; in powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry, its departmental administrative and advisory boards an departmental administrative and advisory boards and departmental administrative officers, providing for abrogation of department regulations; in powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare and its departmental and advisory boards and commissions, providing for waiver guidance; in power and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, providing for service alignment; in powers and duties of the Department of General Services and its departmental administrative and advisory boards and commission, further providing for Department of Environmental Resources powers not affected; in powers and duties of Department of Revenue, repealing provisions relating to vehicle and tractor codes; in powers and duties of the Department of Community Affairs, its departmental boards, bureaus and agencies, further providing for powers and duties in general; providing for United States semiquincentennial; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.

An Act designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 1951, carrying State Route 4017 on Wetzel Road, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, as the Commander William J. Schofield, III, Memorial Bridge.

An Act amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, in life insurance, further providing for standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities; and, in suitability of annuity transactions, further providing for definitions, for applicability and scope of article, for duties of insurers and insurance producers, for insurance producer training, for mitigation of responsibility, for recordkeeping and for enforcement.

An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure), 61 (Prisons and Parole) and 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in judicial boards and commissions, further providing for definitions and for publication of guidelines for sentencing, resentencing and parole, risk assessment instrument and recommitment ranges following revocation; in depositions and witnesses, further providing for confidential communications involving law enforcement officers and for confidential communications to peer support members; in juvenile matters, further providing for inspection of court files and records; in particular rights and immunities, further providing for immunity of State parole officers and for immunity of program administrators and supervisors; in post-trial matters, further providing for postconviction DNA testing; in sentencing, further providing for mandatory period of probation for certain sexual offenders, for disposition of persons found guilty but mentally ill, for information required upon commitment and subsequent disposition, for judicial power to release inmates, for transfer of inmates in need of medical treatment, for applicability, for registry, for initial registration, for duty to inform, for enforcement, for assessments, for verification by sexual offenders and Pennsylvania State Police, for administration, for global positioning system technology, for immunity for good faith conduct, for Pennsylvania State Police, for duties of probation and parole officials, for board, for annual performance audit, for applicability, for registration, for registration procedures and applicability, for assessments, for administration, for global positioning system technology, for immunity for good faith conduct, for duties of Pennsylvania State Police, for duties of Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, for board and for annual performance audit; in other criminal provisions, further providing for supervisory relationship to offenders; in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in general administration, providing for powers of peace officers; in community corrections centers and community corrections facilities, further providing for definitions, for department, for offenders who may be housed, for authority of Commonwealth employees, for authority of chairman and for escape and providing for certain offenders residing in group-based homes and for reporting; in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for definitions, for operation of parole system generally, for Pennsylvania Parole Board, for board chairperson, for board action, for meetings and for offices, repealing provisions relating to district directors, to district office employees, to disciplinary action and to certain offenders residing in group-based homes, further providing for general powers of board and for specific powers of board involving parolees, repealing provisions relating to probation services, further providing for sentencing court to transmit records to board, for general criteria for parole by court, for right of access to inmates, for parole power, for violation of terms of parole, for parole procedure, for victim statements, testimony and participation in hearing, for general rules and special regulations and for early parole of inmates subject to Federal removal order and repealing provisions relating to definitions, to status as peace officers and to supervisory relationship to offenders; providing for supervision of offenders and for agents; in county probation officers' firearm education and training, further providing for definitions; in Interstate Compacts, further providing for Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Adult Offenders application fee, for deputization and for supervision of persons paroled by other states; providing for Board of Pardons; in preliminary provisions relating to retirement for State employees and officers, further providing for definitions; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Corrections; providing for the transfer of functions, powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole and for appropriations for the Office of Victim Advocate; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.

An Act amending the act of December 20, 1985 (P.L.457, No.112), known as the Medical Practice Act of 1985, further providing for definitions, for State Board of Medicine and for physician assistants; and abrogating regulations.