PRINTER'S NO. 580
No. 554 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY CONTI, WAGNER, BODACK, TARTAGLIONE, DENT, KUKOVICH, STOUT AND SCHWARTZ, MARCH 10, 1999
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 10, 1999
AN ACT 1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled 2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the 3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the 4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative 5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof, 6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or 7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or 8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative 9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and 10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative 11 officers, and of the several administrative departments, 12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the 13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive 14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of 15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and 16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards, 17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the 18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other 19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and 20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for the 21 collection of information on crimes relating to disability, 22 ancestry and sexual orientation. 23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 24 hereby enacts as follows: 25 Section 1. Section 710(i) of the act of April 9, 1929 26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, 27 amended October 3, 1986 (P.L.1414, No.129), is amended to read:
1 Section 710. Pennsylvania State Police.--The Pennsylvania 2 State Police shall have the power and its duty shall be: 3 * * * 4 (i) To collect information relating to crimes and incidents 5 related to the actual or perceived race, color, religion [or], 6 national origin, disability, ancestry or sexual orientation of 7 individuals or groups, which shall be reported monthly by all 8 local law enforcement agencies and the State Fire Marshal. Any 9 information, records and statistics collected in accordance with 10 this subsection shall be available for use by any agency 11 required to furnish information, to the extent that such 12 information is reasonably necessary or useful to such agency in 13 carrying out the duties imposed on it by law. The Commissioner 14 of the Pennsylvania State Police may, by regulation, establish 15 such conditions for the use or availability of such information 16 as may be necessary to its preservation, the protection of 17 confidential information, or the circumstances of a pending 18 prosecution. 19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. B19L71DMS/19990S0554B0580 - 2 -