PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 1085
No. 979 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY ZUG, NAILOR, READSHAW, SEMMEL, BROWN, CORNELL,
THOMAS, LYNCH, E. Z. TAYLOR, ZIMMERMAN, ARGALL, SCHRODER,
FICHTER, WOGAN, RUBLEY, TULLI, MILLER, SATHER, SERAFINI,
PETTIT, FARGO, ROBINSON, MAITLAND, LEH, TRUE, WAUGH,
HUTCHINSON, HERMAN, CLYMER, MARSICO, HENNESSEY, TRELLO,
GEIST, BROWNE, ROSS, McNAUGHTON, CIVERA, BOSCOLA, RAMOS AND
BENNINGHOFF, MARCH 19, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 19, 1997
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, providing for qualifications of Auditor
3 General and State Treasurer.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
7 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
8 That Article IV be amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 18.1. Qualifications of Auditor General and State Treasurer.
10 No person shall be eligible to be elected or temporarily
11 appointed to the office of Auditor General or State Treasurer
12 except a citizen of the United States who has attained 30 years
13 of age and has been an inhabitant of this Commonwealth seven
14 years immediately preceding his election, unless he has been
15 absent on the public business of the United States or of this
1 Commonwealth.
2 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
3 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
4 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
5 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
6 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
7 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
8 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
9 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
10 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
11 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
12 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
13 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
14 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
15 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
16 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
17 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
18 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
19 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
20 primary, general or municipal election occurring at least three
21 months after the proposed constitutional amendment is passed by
22 the General Assembly which meets the requirements of and is in
23 conformance with section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution of
24 Pennsylvania.
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