PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 917 PRINTER'S NO. 1125
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 877
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY SOLOMON, DOUGHERTY, BELLMON, WHITE, NEILSON,
GALLAGHER, HOHENSTEIN, GREINER, MADDEN, WAXMAN, GIRAL, KHAN,
SCHLOSSBERG, GUENST, SANCHEZ, KENYATTA, ISAACSON, OTTEN,
BOROWSKI AND RABB, MARCH 11, 2025
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED,
MARCH 25, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 29, 1996 (P.L.434, No.67), entitled "An
2 act to enhance job creation and economic development by
3 providing for an annual financing strategy, for opportunity
4 grants, for job creation tax credits, for small business
5 assistance, for the Small Business Advocacy Council, for a
6 family savings program, for industrial development
7 assistance, for community development bank grants and loans
8 and for tax-exempt bond allocation; conferring powers and
9 duties on various administrative agencies and authorities;
10 further providing for various funds; and making repeals," in
11 Community Development Bank Grant and Loan Program, further
12 providing for definitions and providing for financial
13 assistance to air ambulance crash impacted businesses.
14 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
15 hereby enacts as follows:
16 Section 1. Section 2501 of the act of June 29, 1996
17 (P.L.434, No.67), known as the Job Enhancement Act, is amended
18 by adding a definition DEFINITIONS to read: <--
19 Section 2501. Definitions.
20 The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
21 shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
 1 context clearly indicates otherwise:
2 "Air ambulance crash impacted business." A business
3 materially impacted by the air ambulance crash in Philadelphia
4 on January 31, 2025.
5 * * *
6 "COMMITTEE." THE OPERATIONAL COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED UNDER <--
7 SECTION 2503.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
10 Section 2512. Financial assistance to air ambulance crash
11 impacted businesses.
12 (a) Air ambulance crash grant program.--From money
13 appropriated to the authority for grants under this subsection,
14 the authority shall issue grants to eligible institutions to
15 provide technical assistance, training or other support to air
16 ambulance crash impacted businesses.
17 (b) Air ambulance crash loan program.--From money
18 appropriated to the authority for loans under this subsection,
19 the authority shall provide loans to eligible institutions for
20 the purpose of providing funding to eligible institutions to
21 make loans to air ambulance crash impacted businesses.
22 (c) Report.--The authority shall prepare, in consultation
23 with the committee, a report to the chairperson and minority
24 chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and
25 the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations
26 Committee of the House of Representatives. WITHIN 180 DAYS OF <--
27 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AIR AMBULANCE CRASH GRANT AND LOAN
28 PROGRAMS. The report shall include the amount of money allocated
29 to the air ambulance crash grant and loan programs under this
30 section, the name and location of community development
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 1 financial institutions accredited by the department and the
2 number of grants and loans disbursed to air ambulance crash
3 impacted businesses.
4 (D) STUDY.--THE JOINT STATE GOVERNMENT COMMISSION SHALL <--
5 CONDUCT, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE AUTHORITY AND COMMITTEE, A
6 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY AND ISSUE A REPORT ON PROVIDING GRANTS TO
7 SMALL BUSINESSES IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WITHIN 180 DAYS OF THE
8 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AIR AMBULANCE CRASH GRANT AND LOAN
9 PROGRAMS. THE STUDY SHALL:
10 (1) EXAMINE ECONOMIC RECOVERY APPROACHES FOR SMALL
11 BUSINESSES IN OTHER STATES AFTER AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.
12 (2) IDENTIFY THE BEST PRACTICES FOR ECONOMIC
13 REDEVELOPMENT OF A SMALL BUSINESS AFTER AN EMERGENCY
14 SITUATION.
15 (d) (E) Prohibition on issuance.--The authority may not <--
16 award a grant or loan under this section later than five years
17 after the effective date of this section.
18 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0917: P.L.434, No.67
Printer's No. 1125: P.L.434, No.67