PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 1050
No. 956 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY HART, ULIANA, MURPHY, BELL AND EARLL, MAY 1, 1997
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MAY 1, 1997
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, providing for the recall of members of
3 boards of school directors.
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 section 7 of Article VI be amended to read:
9 § 7. Removal of civil officers.
10 All civil officers shall hold their offices on the condition
11 that they behave themselves well while in office, and shall be
12 removed on conviction of misbehavior in office or of any
13 infamous crime. Appointed civil officers, other than judges of
14 the courts of record, may be removed at the pleasure of the
15 power by which they shall have been appointed. All civil
16 officers elected by the people, except the Governor, the
17 Lieutenant Governor, members of the General Assembly and judges
18 of the courts of record, shall be removed by the Governor for
1 reasonable cause, after due notice and full hearing, on the
2 address of two-thirds of the Senate. The General Assembly may
3 prescribe by law for the recall of members of boards of school
4 directors.
5 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
6 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
7 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
8 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
9 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
10 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
11 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
12 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
13 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
14 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
15 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
16 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
17 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
18 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
19 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
20 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
21 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
22 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
23 primary, general or municipal election occurring at least three
24 months after the proposed constitutional amendment is passed by
25 the General Assembly which meets the requirements of and is in
26 conformance with section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution of
27 Pennsylvania.
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