Bill Sponsors: PA HB1062 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session

Bill Title: Repealing the act of July 16, 1941 (P.L.386, No.149), entitled "An act providing for the establishment, construction, operation and maintenance of a mountain ridge road or parkway in the Pocono Mountains through, bordering or accessible to the counties of Monroe, Northampton, Carbon, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wayne and Pike, to be known as the "Pocono Mountain Memorial Parkway"; providing for the creation of the Pennsylvania Parkway Commission, and conferring powers, and imposing duties on said commission; authorizing the issuance of parkway revenue bonds of the Commonwealth, payable solely from tolls, to pay the cost of such parkway; providing that no debt of the Commonwealth shall be incurred in the exercise of any of the powers granted by this act; providing for the collection of tolls for the payment of such bonds and for the cost of maintenance, operation and repair of the parkway; making such bonds exempt from taxation; constituting such bonds legal investments in certain instances; prescribing conditions upon which such parkway shall become free; providing for condemnation; granting certain powers and authority to municipal subdivisions and other agencies of the Commonwealth to cooperate with the commission; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Highways and authorizing the issuance of parkway revenue refunding bonds."

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB1062 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Representative Michael Peifer [R]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-139FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative David Millard [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-109FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Francis Ryan [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-101FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Andrew Lewis [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-105FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative James Marshall [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-014FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Tina Pickett [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-110FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Tarah Toohil [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-116FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Jesse Topper [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-078FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative David Hickernell [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-098FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Rich Irvin [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-081FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Robert James [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-064FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Aaron Kaufer [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-120FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Donna Oberlander [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-063FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative David Zimmerman [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-099FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Ed Neilson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-174FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Lynda Schlegel Culver [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-027FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative Dan Moul [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-091FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Cris Dush [R]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-025FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Representative William Kortz [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-038FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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