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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania House Bill 201 allows intermediate school units to purchase property and broadens capital subsidy contracts
Last action · February 4, 2025: Referred to EDUCATION, Feb. 4, 2025Sponsors: Joe Ciresi and 23 others
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What This Bill Would Do
Pennsylvania intermediate school units are newly permitted to purchase or receive land and buildings by gift, expanding beyond leasing, and all facility-related financial agreements require pre-approval by the Secretary of Education.
Expands the real estate acquisition powers of intermediate educational units and updates the state subsidy calculation rules for facility contracts.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
intermediate units
Intermediate units gain the authority to purchase or receive land and buildings by gift and must submit all facility-related financial agreements for state pre-approval.
Secretary of Education
The Secretary is required to pre-approve all facility-related agreements, security agreements, loan agreements, and mortgages for intermediate units.
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Who must approve facility contracts entered into by intermediate units?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
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Procedural history
11 actions- Feb 4, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to EDUCATION, Feb. 4, 2025
- Feb 4, 2025SenateIn the Senate
- Feb 3, 2025HouseFloorThird consideration and final passage, Feb. 3, 2025 (155-47)
- Feb 3, 2025HouseCommitteeRe-reported as committed, Feb. 3, 2025
- Jan 29, 2025HouseRe-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, Jan. 29, 2025
- Jan 29, 2025HouseFloorSecond consideration, Jan. 29, 2025
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- Jan 28, 2025HouseRemoved from table, Jan. 28, 2025
- Jan 27, 2025HouseLaid on the table, Jan. 27, 2025
- Jan 27, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst consideration, Jan. 27, 2025
- Jan 27, 2025HouseCommitteeReported as committed, Jan. 27, 2025
- Jan 23, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to EDUCATION, Jan. 23, 2025
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance45How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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