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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY GROVE, GILLESPIE, BOYD, BROOKS, CUTLER, GABLER, GODSHALL, HAHN, HARRIS, KAUFFMAN AND SWANGER, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of October 15, 1980 (P.L.950, No.164), entitled |
2 | "A supplement to the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), |
3 | entitled 'An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct |
4 | of the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth |
5 | by the Executive Department thereof and the administrative |
6 | departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof, |
7 | including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or |
8 | Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or |
9 | authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative |
10 | departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and |
11 | duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative |
12 | officers, and of the several administrative departments, |
13 | boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the |
14 | Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive |
15 | and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of |
16 | certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and |
17 | other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards, |
18 | and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the |
19 | number and compensation of the deputies and all other |
20 | assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and |
21 | commissions shall be determined,' implementing the addition |
22 | of section 4.1 to Article IV of the Constitution of |
23 | Pennsylvania; establishing the Office of Attorney General |
24 | elected by the citizens and setting forth powers and duties |
25 | of the Attorney General; creating an Office of General |
26 | Counsel and providing for legal services for Commonwealth |
27 | agencies; transferring, reorganizing or reconstituting |
28 | certain boards, commissions and agencies; placing certain |
29 | duties upon the courts and district attorneys; repealing |
30 | certain acts and parts of acts and making appropriations," |
31 | further providing for the transfer of administrative |
32 | functions of the Board of Pardons to the Lieutenant Governor. |
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1 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
2 | hereby enacts as follows: |
3 | Section 1. Section 501(c) of the act of October 15, 1980 |
4 | (P.L.950, No.164), known as the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, is |
5 | amended to read: |
6 | Section 501. General transfer of personnel, appropriations, |
7 | records, equipment, etc. |
8 | * * * |
9 | (c) [Transfers of administrative functions of the Board of |
10 | Pardons to the Lieutenant Governor.--The administrative |
11 | functions of the Board of Pardons are hereby transferred to the |
12 | Lieutenant Governor. All personnel, allocations, appropriations, |
13 | equipment, files, records, contracts, agreements, obligations |
14 | and other materials which are used, employed or expended in |
15 | connection with the powers, duties or functions transferred by |
16 | this act to the Lieutenant Governor are hereby transferred to |
17 | the Lieutenant Governor with the same force and effect as if the |
18 | appropriations had been made to and said items had been the |
19 | property of the Lieutenant Governor in the first instance and as |
20 | if said contracts, agreements and obligations had been incurred |
21 | or entered into by said Lieutenant Governor.] Administrative |
22 | functions transferred back to the Board of Pardons.--Upon the |
23 | elimination of the office of Lieutenant Governor, the |
24 | administrative functions of the Board of Pardons transferred to |
25 | the Lieutenant Governor prior to the elimination of the office |
26 | of Lieutenant Governor shall be transferred back to the Board of |
27 | Pardons. All personnel, allocations, appropriations, equipment, |
28 | files, records, contracts, agreements, obligation and other |
29 | materials which are used, employed or expended in connection |
30 | with the powers, duties or functions transferred prior to the |
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1 | elimination of the office of Lieutenant Governor are hereby |
2 | transferred back to the Board of Pardons. |
3 | * * * |
4 | Section 2. Upon the ratification of the amendment to the |
5 | Constitution of Pennsylvania abolishing the office of Lieutenant |
6 | Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the date |
7 | of ratification to be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. |
8 | Section 3. This act shall take effect as follows: |
9 | (1) Section 1 of this act shall take effect upon |
10 | publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin of the ratification |
11 | date of the amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania |
12 | that abolishes the office of Lieutenant Governor. |
13 | (2) Section 2 of this act and this section shall take |
14 | effect immediately. |
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