PRINTER'S NO. 540
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 427
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MARTIN, APRIL 3, 2025
REFERRED TO APPROPRIATIONS, APRIL 3, 2025
AN ACT
1 To provide appropriations from the General Fund for the expenses
2 of certain agencies of the Executive Department for the
3 fiscal year July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, and for the
4 payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close
5 of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 PART I
9 GENERAL PROVISIONS
10 Section 101. Short title.
11 This act shall be known and may be cited as the General
12 Appropriation Act of 2025.
13 Section 102. State appropriations.
14 The following sums specified in this act, or as much thereof
15 as may be necessary, are specifically appropriated from the
16 General Fund to certain agencies of the Executive Department of
17 the Commonwealth for the payment of salaries, wages or other
18 compensation and travel expenses of the duly elected or
19 appointed officers and employees of the Commonwealth, for the
20 payment of fees for contractual services rendered, for the
 1 purchase or rental of goods and services, printing, public
2 advertising by or through any medium, equipment, land and
3 buildings and for payment of any other expenses, as provided by
4 law or by this act, necessary for the proper conduct of the
5 duties, functions and activities and for the purposes specified
6 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and for the payment
7 of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the
8 fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
9 PART II
10 GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS
11 SUBPART A
12 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
13 Section 201. Department of Agriculture.
14 The following amounts are
15 appropriated from the General
16 Fund to the Department of
17 Agriculture for the fiscal year
18 beginning July 1, 2025: Federal State
19 For agricultural preparedness
20 and response.
21 State appropriation....... 34,000,000
22 PART LXXXI
23 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
24 Section 8101. Lapsing of unused funds.
25 Except as otherwise provided by law or by this section, that
26 part of all appropriations in Part II unexpended, uncommitted or
27 unencumbered as of June 30, 2026, shall automatically lapse as
28 of that date.
29 Section 8102. Effective date.
30 This act shall take effect July 1, 2025, or immediately,
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1 whichever is later.
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