PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 652
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
706
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY KENYATTA, RABB, BURGOS, BRIGGS, HOHENSTEIN,
PROBST, SANCHEZ, SIEGEL, KINSEY, GUENST, PIELLI, MADDEN,
PARKER, VENKAT, FIEDLER, GALLOWAY AND FREEMAN, MARCH 27, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 27, 2023
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing integrated amendments to the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, further providing for
ineligibility by criminal convictions and for removal of
civil officers.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby resolves as follows:
Section 1. The following integrated amendments to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania are proposed in accordance with
Article XI:
(1) That section 7 of Article II be amended to read:
§ 7. Ineligibility by criminal convictions.
No person hereafter convicted of embezzlement of public
moneys, bribery, perjury, seditious conspiracy against the
United States or other infamous crime, shall be eligible to the
General Assembly, or capable of holding any office of trust or
profit in this Commonwealth.
(2) That section 7 of Article VI be amended to read:
§ 7. Removal of civil officers.
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All civil officers shall hold their offices on the condition
that they behave themselves well while in office, and shall be
removed on conviction of seditious conspiracy against the United
States, misbehavior in office or of any infamous crime.
Appointed civil officers, other than judges of the courts of
record, may be removed at the pleasure of the power by which
they shall have been appointed. All civil officers elected by
the people, except the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor,
members of the General Assembly and judges of the courts of
record, shall be removed by the Governor for reasonable cause,
after due notice and full hearing, on the address of two-thirds
of the Senate.
Section 2. The following procedure applies to the proposed
constitutional amendments in this joint resolution:
(1) Upon the first passage by the General Assembly of
the amendments, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
(2) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of
the amendments, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
proceed immediately to comply with the advertising
requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
submit the amendments to the qualified electors of this
Commonwealth as a single ballot question at the first general
election which meets the requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
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