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                                                       PRINTER'S NO.   264
                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 287
                                               Session of
                                                 2025
     INTRODUCED BY HUGHES, FEBRUARY 26, 2025
     REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, FEBRUARY 26, 2025
                                    AN ACT
 Making appropriations from the Workmen's Compensation
    Administration Fund to the Department of Labor and Industry
    and the Department of Community and Economic Development to
    provide for the expenses of administering the Workers'
    Compensation Act, The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act
    and the Office of Small Business Advocate for the fiscal year
    July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, and for the payment of bills
    incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year
    ending June 30, 2025.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
    Section 1.    The sum of $75,802,000, or as much thereof as may
 be necessary, is appropriated from the Workmen's Compensation
 Administration Fund to the Department of Labor and Industry for
 the payment of all salaries, wages and other compensation and
 travel expenses, for contractual services and other expenses
 necessary for the administration of the act of June 2, 1915
 (P.L.736, No.338), known as the Workers' Compensation Act, and
 the act of June 21, 1939 (P.L.566, No.284), known as The
 Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act, for the fiscal year
 beginning July 1, 2025, and for the payment of bills incurred
 and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending June
 30, 2025.
    Section 2.   The sum of $550,000 is appropriated from the
 restricted revenue account within the Workmen's Compensation
 Administration Fund to the Office of Small Business Advocate in
 the Department of Community and Economic Development as provided
 in the act of June 2, 1915 (P.L.736, No.338), known as the
 Workers' Compensation Act, for the operation of that office for
 the fiscal year July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.
    Section 3.   This act shall take effect July 1, 2025, or
 immediately, whichever is later.
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