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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2019 - 2020
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 25, 2019 05:06 PM |
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| From: | Senator Jay Costa |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Pennsylvania State Police Municipal Police Services Act |
| In the near future, I will be introducing the Pennsylvania State Police Municipal Police Services Act. The bill provides for a reasonable per capita fee to be paid by municipalities for Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) coverage. Two-thirds of Pennsylvania municipalities rely on state police for part- or full-time patrol services in lieu of a full-time local police force. The area covered by PSP is mostly rural, and covers 82 percent of the commonwealth’s land mass but just 26 percent of residents. In 2017-18 fiscal year, PSP spent $677 million on patrol services in municipalities. This largely supports part- and full-time patrol services in municipalities that do not have a full-time local, regional, or contracted police force. Almost three quarters of incident responded to by PSP in 2018 occurred in municipalities with patrol full-time state police coverage, excluding traffic stops. The fee proposal would raise about $100 million which represents only a small percentage of the amount of coverage that municipalities receive from PSP. Please join me in co-sponsoring this legislation. |
Introduced as SB741