PRINTER'S NO. 2504
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1969
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY DIAMOND, SMITH, GREINER, BERNSTINE, LEADBETER,
R. MACKENZIE, HAMM, ECKER, JOZWIAK, T. JONES, KAUFFMAN,
BANTA, BARTON, CUTLER, LAWRENCE AND KEEFER, JANUARY 31, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
JANUARY 31, 2024
AN ACT
Amending Title 63 (Professions and Occupations (State Licensed))
of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers and
duties, providing for amnesty for disciplinary actions
regarding COVID-19 protocols.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 63 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 3108.1. Amnesty for disciplinary actions regarding COVID-19
protocols.
A license, registration, certificate or permit that was
suspended or revoked or any disciplinary action taken by a
licensing board or licensing commission on a licensee,
registrant, certificate holder or permit holder for failure to
comply with any of the following during the period in which the
Governor's Proclamation of Disaster Emergency issued on March 6,
2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March 21, 2020) was in effect
shall be removed or reinstated:
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(1) A proclamation or order of the Governor under 35
Pa.C.S. § 7301(f)(7) (relating to general authority of
Governor), s ection 8(a) of the act of April 27, 1905
(P.L.312, No.218), entitled "An act creating a Department of
Health, and defining its powers and duties," section 2102(a)
of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The
Administrative Code of 1929, or section 5 of the act of April
23, 1956 (1955 P.L.1510, No.500), known as the Disease
Prevention and Control Law of 1955, which relates to the
novel coronavirus known as "COVID-19."
(2) An order of the Secretary of Health under s ection
8(a) of the act of April 27, 1905 (P.L.312, No.218), entitled
"An act creating a Department of Health, and defining its
powers and duties," section 2102(a) or 2106 of The
Administrative Code of 1929, section 5 of the Disease
Prevention and Control Law of 1955 or 28 Pa. Code § 27.60
(relating to disease control measures), 27.61 (relating to
isolation), 27.65 (relating to quarantine), 27.66 (relating
to placarding), 27.67 (relating to movement of persons and
animals subject to isolation or quarantine by action of a
local health authority or the Department) or 27.68 (relating
to release from isolation or quarantine), which relates to
the novel coronavirus known as "COVID-19."
(3) Guidance issued by the Department of Health or the
Department of Human Services relating to the novel
coronavirus known as "COVID-19."
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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