PRINTER'S NO. 1690
No. 1338 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY BELL, NOVEMBER 13, 1989
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
NOVEMBER 13, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting employment contracts that
3 restrict reporting of safety violations at nuclear-powered
4 electric generating units.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 7326. Employment contracts restricting reporting of safety
10 violations at nuclear-powered electric generating
11 units.
12 (a) General rule.--A high managerial agent of a public
13 utility operating a nuclear-powered electric generating unit or
14 a high managerial agent of a contractor that provides services
15 or materials to the operator of a nuclear-powered electirc
16 generating unit commits a misdemeanor of the first degree if he
17 authorizes or executes, on behalf of the public utility or
18 contractor, a collective bargaining agreement, employment
1 contract or other agreement that restricts or impedes an
2 employee or former employee from reporting violations of laws,
3 regulations or established safe operating procedures involving a
4 nuclear-powered electric generating unit to the Pennsylvania
5 Public Utility Commission.
6 (b) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "high
7 managerial agent" means an officer of a corporation or an
8 unincorporated association, or, in the case of a partnership, a
9 partner, or any other agent of a corporation or association
10 having duties of such responsibility that his conduct may fairly
11 be assumed to represent the policy of the corporation or
12 association.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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