PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 453
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
485
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY SOLOMON, KENYATTA, ISAACSON, MADDEN, RABB,
SANCHEZ, SIEGEL, GUENST, HILL-EVANS, SCHLEGEL CULVER, VENKAT,
KINKEAD AND CONKLIN, MARCH 16, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 16, 2023
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, further providing for removal of civil
officers.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 7 of Article VI be amended to read:
ยง 7. Removal of civil officers.
All civil officers shall hold their offices on the condition
that they behave themselves well while in office, and shall be
removed on a guilty verdict, the entry of a guilty plea or a
plea of nolo contendere or the acceptance of Accelerated
Rehabilitative Disposition for a conviction of misbehavior in
office [or of any infamous crime.] or for a criminal offense
classified above a misdemeanor of the first degree. Appointed
civil officers, other than judges of the courts of record, may
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be removed at the pleasure of the power by which they shall have
been appointed. All civil officers elected by the people, except
the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, members of the General
Assembly and judges of the courts of record, shall be removed by
the Governor for reasonable cause, after due notice and full
hearing, on the address of two-thirds of the Senate.
Section 2. The following procedure applies to the proposed
constitutional amendment in this joint resolution:
(1) Upon the first passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
(2) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of
the amendment, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
submit the amendment to the qualified electors of this
Commonwealth at the first primary, general or municipal
election which meets the requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
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