THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, FONTANA, O'PAKE, STACK AND TARTAGLIONE, AUGUST 24, 2010

REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, AUGUST 24, 2010  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the

Executive Department thereof and the administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

officers, and of the several administrative departments,

boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," further providing for

Pennsylvania State Police.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 205(b) of the act of April 9, 1929

(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,

amended July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12) and repealed in part

December 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100), is amended to read:

Section 205.  Pennsylvania State Police.--* * *

(b)  The [State Police Force shall consist of such number of

officers and men, and shall be organized in such manner, as the

Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of

the Governor, shall from time to time determine: Provided,

however, That the] number of [officers and men] Pennsylvania

State Police shall not exceed in the aggregate at any time

[three thousand nine hundred and forty] five thousand persons[.

State policemen, both officers and men,], provided that

Pennsylvania State Police members assigned to duty with the

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, the Pennsylvania Gaming

Control Board, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, the

Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission or [assigned to

duty] as resident State troopers, shall [not be counted in

determining the total number of officers and men in the State

Police Force] be excluded in determining such number.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.