PRINTER'S NO. 2449
No. 363 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY YOUNGBLOOD, CRUZ, KELLER, JAMES, HORSEY, ALLEN, ARMSTRONG, BARD, BASTIAN, BELFANTI, BIRMELIN, BISHOP, BOYD, BROWNE, BUTKOVITZ, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CAWLEY, CLYMER, COHEN, COLEMAN, CORRIGAN, COSTA, CRAHALLA, CREIGHTON, DAILEY, DALEY, DIVEN, DONATUCCI, EGOLF, FICHTER, FLEAGLE, FLICK, FRANKEL, GEORGE, GERGELY, GINGRICH, GORDNER, GRUITZA, HABAY, HANNA, HARHART, HARPER, HARRIS, HENNESSEY, HERMAN, HICKERNELL, HUTCHINSON, KENNEY, KIRKLAND, KOTIK, LaGROTTA, LEACH, LEDERER, LEVDANSKY, LEWIS, MAHER, MAJOR, MANN, MARKOSEK, McCALL, McGEEHAN, McILHATTAN, McILHINNEY, McNAUGHTON, MELIO, METCALFE, MUSTIO, MYERS, NICKOL, O'BRIEN, OLIVER, O'NEILL, PETRI, PISTELLA, PRESTON, RAYMOND, READSHAW, REED, REICHLEY, RIEGER, RUBLEY, RUFFING, SAMUELSON, SCAVELLO, SEMMEL, SOLOBAY, STABACK, STAIRS, STERN, R. STEVENSON, T. STEVENSON, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TIGUE, TRAVAGLIO, TRUE, TURZAI, WASHINGTON, WATERS, WATSON, WEBER, WHEATLEY, WILLIAMS, WRIGHT, YEWCIC, YUDICHAK, ZUG, VANCE, FORCIER, CAPPELLI, MACKERETH, SAYLOR, MARSICO, LEH, WILT, BENNINGHOFF, S. MILLER, DALLY, GABIG AND LESCOVITZ, JULY 17, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JULY 17, 2003
A RESOLUTION 1 Urging that appropriate funding to adequately staff her 2 legislative district office be restored to Representative 3 Rosita Youngblood forthwith. 4 WHEREAS, It is recognized that every Pennsylvanian should 5 have access to his or her State representative and the services 6 offered through legislative district offices; and 7 WHEREAS, This right to access necessitates expenditures of 8 moneys to provide office space, staff and equipment in each of 9 the Commonwealth's 203 legislative districts; and 10 WHEREAS, Both caucuses of the House of Representatives
1 receive allocations of moneys to provide district offices and 2 staff to each member; and 3 WHEREAS, Each legislator should be afforded adequate 4 resources to provide and staff a district office, regardless of 5 partisan affiliation; and 6 WHEREAS, Despite these fundamental principles of 7 representative government, Representative Rosita Youngblood has 8 been without moneys to staff her district office for more than 9 365 days, thus depriving her constituents of legislative 10 services at the local level; therefore be it 11 RESOLVED, That appropriate funding to adequately staff her 12 legislative district office be restored to Representative Rosita 13 Youngblood forthwith. G11L82JAM/20030H0363R2449 - 2 -