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PRINTER'S NO. 27
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 48
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY CIRESI, SANCHEZ, FLICK, GIRAL, HILL-EVANS, GUENST,
HADDOCK, KHAN AND FREEMAN, JANUARY 10, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 10, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in registration of vehicles, providing for arts
registration plate; in fees, further providing for payments
to special funds; and establishing the Arts Promotion Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 1352.3. Arts registration plate.
The department, in consultation with the Council on the Arts,
shall design a special arts registration plate. Upon application
of any person, accompanied by a fee of $41, which shall be in
addition to the annual registration fee, the department shall
issue the plate for a passenger car, motor home, trailer or
truck with a registered gross weight of not more than 14,000
pounds. The Arts Promotion Fund established in section 1905(e)
(relating to payments to special funds) shall receive $15 of the
fee paid by the applicant for the plate.
Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
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subsection to read:
§ 1905. Payments to special funds.
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(e) Arts Promotion Fund.--
(1) The Arts Promotion Fund is established within the
State Treasury for the purpose of providing grants for the
arts.
(2) Fifteen dollars of each fee received under section
1352.3 (relating to arts registration plate) shall be
credited to the Arts Promotion Fund.
(3) All money in the Arts Promotion Fund is appropriated
on a continuing basis to the Council on the Arts and may be
expended, subject to paragraph (5), for the purposes
authorized under this subsection.
(4) Estimates of amounts to be expended under this
subsection shall be submitted to the Governor by the Council
on the Arts for approval.
(5) The State Treasurer may not honor any requisition
for expenditures by the Council on the Arts in excess of
estimates approved by the Governor or in excess of the amount
available for the purposes for which the requisition was
made, whichever is the lesser amount.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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