Pennsylvania Statutes Title 47 P.S. Liquor § 8-802. Moneys paid into The State Stores Fund for use of the Commonwealth

(a) All moneys, except fees to be paid into the Liquor License Fund as provided by section 801,  1 collected, received or recovered under the provisions of this act for license fees, permit fees, filing fees and registration fees, from forfeitures, sales of forfeited property, compromise penalties and sales of liquor and alcohol at the Pennsylvania Liquor Stores, shall be paid into the State Treasury through the Department of Revenue into a special fund to be known as “The State Stores Fund.”

(b) Deleted by 1993, May 28, P.L. 42, No. 13, § 1, imd. effective.

(c) Two per centum of annual profits from the sale of liquor and alcohol shall be annually transferred to the Department of Health for use by the Office of Drug and Alcohol Programs, or its successor in function, for the following purposes:

(d) All other moneys in such fund shall be available for the purposes for which they are appropriated by law.

(e) Annually, the General Assembly shall make an appropriation from the State Stores Fund to provide for the operational expenses of the enforcement bureau.

(f) Any moneys in the State Stores Fund, from time to time, which may not be required for any of the purposes specified in this act or in the act of December 20, 1933 (Sp.Sess., P.L. 89, No. 15),  2 entitled “An act appropriating the moneys in The State Stores Fund,” shall be paid over into the General Fund and shall be available for the payment of appropriations made from the General Fund. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, with the approval of the Governor, shall, from time to time, fix the amount of money which may be so paid over into the General Fund and by its requisition shall direct the Department of the Auditor General and the Treasury Department to transfer such moneys from the State Stores Fund to the General Fund. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board shall, immediately upon voting to pay over any moneys from the State Stores Fund to the General Fund, notify the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives of such transfer of moneys.

(g) The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) shall be transferred from The State Stores Fund in accordance with subsection (f) to the Children's Health Fund for health care for indigent children established by section 1296 of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L. 6, No. 2),  3 known as the “Tax Reform Code of 1971,” to carry out the provisions of the act of December 2, 1992 (P.L. 741, No. 113),  4 known as the “Children's Health Care Act,” for the fiscal year July 1, 1996, to June 30, 1997. Funds transferred under this subsection shall not be subject to the limitation set forth in section 3101 of the “Children's Health Care Act.”

(h) All moneys collected under sections 416, 432(h) and 470.3 of this act  5 shall be transferred from the State Stores Fund to the General Fund on a quarterly basis.