2023 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 17 - Effective Date of Statutes
Section 1702 - Statutes making appropriations
Appropriation statutes, or statutes having appropriation items enacted finally at any regular session of the General Assembly, shall be effective on the date specified by that one of the following rules of construction in effect on the date of final enactment of the statute:
(1) Final enactment before May 18, 1929.--immediately upon final enactment unless a different date is specified in the statute itself.
(2) Final enactment on or after May 18, 1929 and before June 2, 1967.--on the first day of June next following their final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the statute itself, or unless any such statute is enacted finally after the first day of June in any year, in which case it shall be effective immediately upon final enactment.
(3) Final enactment on or after June 2, 1967 and before June 6, 1969.--on the first day of July next following their final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the statute itself, or unless any such statute is enacted finally after the first day of July in any year, in which case it shall be effective immediately upon final enactment.
(4) Final enactment on or after June 6, 1969.--on the first day of July next following their final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the statute itself, or unless any such statute is enacted finally after the first day of July in any year, or after the date specified in the statute, in which case it shall be effective immediately upon final enactment.
