HB 2007

                                              PRINTER'S NO.   2561
             THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                 HOUSE BILL
                 No. 2007
                                        Session of
                                          2025
INTRODUCED BY KHAN, PASHINSKI, GIRAL, HILL-EVANS, GREEN,
   KINKEAD, CARROLL, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, DOUGHERTY, BURGOS, HADDOCK,
   GUZMAN, SHUSTERMAN, SANCHEZ, GUENST, HOHENSTEIN, WAXMAN,
   GOUGHNOUR, RABB, HOWARD, ISAACSON, STEELE, CURRY, HANBIDGE,
   DONAHUE, D. MILLER, BOROWSKI, MERSKI, TAKAC, RIVERA, SCOTT,
   INGLIS AND BOYD, OCTOBER 31, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, NOVEMBER 6, 2025
                             AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled
2    "An act relating to the finances of the State government;
3    providing for cancer control, prevention and research, for
4    ambulatory surgical center data collection, for the Joint
5    Underwriting Association, for entertainment business
6    financial management firms, for private dam financial
7    assurance and for reinstatement of item vetoes; providing for
8    the settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes,
9    bonus, and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the
10    collection and recovery of fees and other money or property
11    due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
12    including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
13    the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
14    and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
15    Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
16    Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
17    courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
18    Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
19    all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
20    moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
21    and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
22    authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
23    to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
24    section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
25    Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
26    certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
27    department, board, commission, and officer of the State
28    government, every political subdivision of the State, and
29    certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
30    association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
1    collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
2    imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
3    other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
4    every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
5    Commonwealth," in special funds, further providing for
6    disposition of Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund.
7    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9    Section 1.     Section 1703-A(b) of the act of April 9, 1929
10 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, is amended and the
11 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
12 Section 1703-A.     Disposition of Budget Stabilization Reserve
13Fund.
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15    (b)   Appropriation.--Except as provided under [subsection
16 (c)] subsections (c) and (d), whenever the Governor determines
17 that an appropriation from the Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund
18 is necessary to meet emergencies involving the health, safety or
19 welfare of the residents of this Commonwealth or to
20 counterbalance downturns of the economy which result in
21 significant unanticipated revenue shortfalls, the Governor shall
22 present a request for an appropriation which may include the
23 specifics of the proposal and suggested ancillary and
24 substantive legislation as may be necessary to the chairman of
25 Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairman of the
26 Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives. The
27 General Assembly may then through approval of a separate
28 appropriation bill by a vote of two-thirds of the members
29 elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives
30 appropriate money from the Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund to
31 meet the needs identified in the Governor's proposal. Any money
32 appropriated according to this section which has then lapsed
33 shall be returned to the Budget Stabilization Reserve Fund.
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2    (d)   SNAP benefits emergency transfer.--Notwithstanding any
3 other provision of this section, no later than November 1, 2025,
4 $62,000,000 shall be transferred from the Budget Stabilization
5 Reserve Fund as follows:
6(1)   The sum of $50,000,000 shall be transferred to the
7    Department of Agriculture for purposes of providing grants to
8    food banks located in this Commonwealth to fund staff and
9    operations and to purchase food and other necessities to
10    ensure that each food bank has the resources necessary to
11    respond to the needs of Pennsylvania families due to the loss
12    of Federal SNAP benefits beginning on November 1, 2025. The
13    Department of Agriculture shall administer funds received
14    under this paragraph under the act of December 11, 1992
15    (P.L.807, No.129), known as the State Food Purchase Program
16    Act, and the act of November 23, 2010 (P.L.1134, No.113),
17    known as the Pennsylvania Agricultural Surplus System Act.
18(2)   The sum of $10,000,000 shall be transferred to the
19    Department of Human Services for grants to organizations that
20    assist senior citizens in addressing hunger, food insecurity
21    and isolation through wellness checks and delivery of
22    nutritional meals.
23(3)   The sum of $2,000,000 is transferred to the
24    Department of Agriculture and the Department of Human
25    Services for the administration of this subsection and for
26    the advertisement of the availability of grants and the
27    additional assistance available under this subsection.
28    Section 2.    This act shall take effect immediately.
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