PRINTER'S NO. 364
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.412
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY L. WILLIAMS, COMITTA, PISCIOTTANO AND SAVAL,
MARCH 10, 2025
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 10, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled
"An act relating to the finances of the State government;
providing for cancer control, prevention and research, for
ambulatory surgical center data collection , for the Joint
Underwriting Association, for entertainment business
financial management firms, for private dam financial
assurance and for reinstatement of item vetoes; providing for
the settlement, assessment, collection, and lien of taxes,
bonus, and all other accounts due the Commonwealth, the
collection and recovery of fees and other money or property
due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
including escheated property and the proceeds of its sale,
the custody and disbursement or other disposition of funds
and securities belonging to or in the possession of the
Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims against the
Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and appeals to the
courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the
Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth and
all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth,
authorizing the Commonwealth to issue tax anticipation notes
to defray current expenses, implementing the provisions of
section 7(a) of Article VIII of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania authorizing and restricting the incurring of
certain debt and imposing penalties; affecting every
department, board, commission, and officer of the State
government, every political subdivision of the State, and
certain officers of such subdivisions, every person,
association, and corporation required to pay, assess, or
collect taxes, or to make returns or reports under the laws
imposing taxes for State purposes, or to pay license fees or
other moneys to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
every State depository and every debtor or creditor of the
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34 Commonwealth," in fiscal supplements to statutory programs,
repealing provisions relating to regulation of rodeos or
rodeo-related events.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8041 of the act of April 9, 1929
(P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, is repealed:
[Section 8041. Regulation of rodeos or rodeo-related events.
(a) Prior regulation.--Any ordinance, rule or regulation
adopted by a municipality before the effective date of this
subsection that regulates the use of any practice, technique or
device necessary for the purposes of holding a ticketed, public
rodeo or rodeo-related event shall permit a rodeo hosting entity
to conduct a rodeo or rodeo-related event on up to 12 days per
calendar year. The rodeo hosting entity shall have sole
discretion to select the 12 days per calendar year on which to
hold a rodeo or rodeo-related event during which the ordinance,
rule or regulation specified in this subsection shall not apply.
(b) Continuing regulation.--Any ordinance, rule or
regulation adopted by a municipality on or after the effective
date of this subsection that regulates the use of any practice,
technique or device necessary for the purposes of holding a
ticketed, public rodeo or rodeo-related event shall permit a
rodeo hosting entity to conduct a rodeo or rodeo-related event
on up to 12 days per calendar year. The rodeo hosting entity
shall have sole discretion to select the 12 days per calendar
year on which to hold a rodeo or rodeo-related event, during
which the ordinance, rule or regulation specified in this
subsection shall not apply.
(c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
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31 subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Municipality." A county, city, borough, incorporated town,
township, home rule charter, original charter, optional plan
municipality or any similar purpose unit of government that may
be created by the General Assembly.
"Rodeo hosting entity." An entity that:
(1) is a nationally recognized professional entity that
produces or operates rodeo or rodeo-related events in at
least 10 states annually; and
(2) produces or operates a ticketed, public rodeo or
rodeo-related event in a venue with a capacity of no less
than 2,500 seats.]
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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