House Rule 32

Hospital and Home Appropriations or Acquiring Lands of the Commonwealth

No bills appropriating moneys to State-aided hospitals or State-aided homes shall be introduced in the House, except such as appropriate in single bills the total sum to be appropriated to all of the institutions within the same class or group.  Requests for appropriations for particular State-aided hospitals or State-aided homes shall be filed with the Chair of the Committee on Appropriations on forms to be furnished by the said Committee on Appropriations, and shall be signed by the member requesting the appropriation.

No bill granting or conveying Commonwealth lands or taking title thereto shall be reported by any committee to the House unless there has been filed with the Chief Clerk and the chair of the reporting committee a memorandum from the Department of General Services indicating the use to which the property is presently employed, the full consideration for the transfer, if any, a departmental appraisal of the property, including its valuation and a list of recorded liens and encumbrances, if any, the use to which the property will be employed upon its transfer, the date by which the land is needed for its new use, and the legislative district or districts in which the land is located. The memorandum shall contain a statement by a responsible person in the Department of General Services indicating whether or not the administration favors the transfer which is the subject of the bill under consideration.