Pennsylvania Act 1949-365 — AUTHORIZING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO RECEIVE FEDERAL EDUCATION FUNDS

Act text

AUTHORIZING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO RECEIVE FEDERAL
                             EDUCATION FUNDS
                 Act of May 11, 1949, P.L. 1202, No. 365              Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     Designating the Superintendent of Public Instruction as the
        State educational authority authorized to apply to, and
        receive from, the Federal Government or any agency thereof,
        grants in aid of the public schools and for educational
        activities therein; and providing for the disbursement of
        such funds.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Whenever legislation by the Federal Government
     shall require designation for the purposes hereinafter mentioned
     of a State educational authority to apply to, and receive from,
     the Federal Government or any agency thereof, any Federal
     grants, appropriations, or allocations, the Superintendent of
     Public Instruction is hereby so designated and authorized to
     apply for any such grants, appropriations, or allocations, on
     behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for any or all of
     the following:
        (1)  Any classification or division of public education and
     related programs, including early childhood, elementary,
     secondary, general, vocational, technical, adult, or extension
     education, and libraries, which is or will be administered by,
     or under the jurisdiction or authority of, the Superintendent of
     Public Instruction;
        (2)  The construction, procurement, acquisition, and lease or
     rental of, public school buildings, facilities, or equipment;
        (3)  The improvement of teacher preparation;
        (4)  The establishment and maintenance of scholarships and
     scholarship-loan programs;
        (5)  The administration of the office of the Superintendent
     of Public Instruction in connection with such grants,
     appropriations, or allocations, which may now or hereafter be
     available or apportioned to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or
     any local public school jurisdiction or other State public
     education agency therein;
        (6)  Or for any other purpose for which Federal funds shall
     be made available for the aid of education.
        Section 2.  To these ends and purposes, the Superintendent of
     Public Instruction is authorized, directed and empowered--
        (1)  To originate the documentary data prerequisite to the
     disbursement of all funds made available at any time by the
     Federal Government to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for said
     purposes, in accordance with existing and usual procedures
     covering disbursements from the State Treasury;
        (2)  To adopt, carry out and administer, a plan or plans,
     rules or regulations, for any such purposes, not contrary to, or
     inconsistent with, the laws of this Commonwealth. Such plan or
     plans, rules or regulations, so adopted, shall be made State-
     wide in application insofar as reasonably feasible, possible, or
     permissible, and shall be so devised as to meet the approval of
     the Federal Government or any of its agencies.
        Section 3.  Such grants, appropriations or allocations from
     the Federal Government as may be received by the Superintendent
     of Public Instruction or the State educational authority for the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the provisions of this act
     shall be paid in to the State Treasury. Disbursement of such
     funds from the State Treasury shall be by warrant of the Auditor
     General.
        Section 4.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.