PRINTER'S NO. 2038
No. 1683 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY LINTON, CALTAGIRONE, KUKOVICH, HAYDEN, ACOSTA,
FREEMAN, PRESSMANN, RITTER, ROEBUCK, EVANS, HOWLETT, JOSEPHS,
THOMAS, McHALE, BORTNER, KOSINSKI, VAN HORNE, PRESTON, ITKIN,
ROBINSON, RICHARDSON, DeWEESE, VEON, BISHOP, D. W. SNYDER,
PISTELLA, CORRIGAN, FOX, MELIO, STABACK, TRELLO AND HAGARTY,
JUNE 13, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 13, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of November 22, 1978 (P.L.1166, No.274),
2 entitled "An act establishing the Pennsylvania Commission on
3 Crime and Delinquency, providing for its powers and duties
4 establishing several advisory committees within the
5 commission and providing for their powers and duties,"
6 further providing for powers and duties of the commission.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of November 22, 1978
10 (P.L.1166, No.274), referred to as the Pennsylvania Commission
11 on Crime and Delinquency Law, is amended by adding a paragraph
12 to read:
13 Section 3. Powers and duties of the commission.
14 The commission shall have the power and its duty shall be:
15 * * *
16 (17) To prepare and present to the Governor and to the
17 General Assembly an analysis of any bill introduced in the
18 General Assembly that would have an impact on prison or jail
1 systems as well as on State and local probation and parole
2 populations and programs. To accomplish this the commission
3 shall establish a committee to prepare such impact analyses,
4 whose membership shall include representatives of the
5 commission, the Department of Corrections, the Pennsylvania
6 Board of Probation and Parole, the Pennsylvania Sentencing
7 Commission, and any other agencies whose participation is
8 deemed necessary by the commission.
9 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
10 Section 9.1. Impact analysis utilization by General Assembly.
11 (a) Bills on second consideration.--A bill introduced in the
12 General Assembly which shall have an impact on prison or jail
13 systems as well as on State and local probation and parole
14 populations and programs shall not be given second consideration
15 in its house of origin until the committee established under
16 section 3(17) presents its required analysis to the Governor and
17 to the General Assembly.
18 (b) Limitation.--If, within 25 days of a bill's first
19 consideration by its house of origin, the committee fails to
20 present its impact analysis as required under subsection (a),
21 the bill may be considered as if the impact analysis had been
22 presented.
23 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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