Bill Text: PA HB2713 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for the transfer of administrative functions of the Board of Pardons to the Lieutenant Governor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-09-28 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB2713 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2713-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4350
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2713 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, GILLESPIE, BOYD, BROOKS, CUTLER, GABLER, GODSHALL, HAHN, HARRIS, KAUFFMAN AND SWANGER, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of October 15, 1980 (P.L.950, No.164), entitled
"A supplement to the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175),
entitled 'An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct
of the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth
by the Executive Department thereof and the administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
officers, and of the several administrative departments,
boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
number and compensation of the deputies and all other
assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
commissions shall be determined,' implementing the addition
of section 4.1 to Article IV of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania; establishing the Office of Attorney General
elected by the citizens and setting forth powers and duties
of the Attorney General; creating an Office of General
Counsel and providing for legal services for Commonwealth
agencies; transferring, reorganizing or reconstituting
certain boards, commissions and agencies; placing certain
duties upon the courts and district attorneys; repealing
certain acts and parts of acts and making appropriations,"
further providing for the transfer of administrative
functions of the Board of Pardons to the Lieutenant Governor.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 501(c) of the act of October 15, 1980
(P.L.950, No.164), known as the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, is
amended to read:
Section 501. General transfer of personnel, appropriations,
records, equipment, etc.
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(c) [Transfers of administrative functions of the Board of
Pardons to the Lieutenant Governor.--The administrative
functions of the Board of Pardons are hereby transferred to the
Lieutenant Governor. All personnel, allocations, appropriations,
equipment, files, records, contracts, agreements, obligations
and other materials which are used, employed or expended in
connection with the powers, duties or functions transferred by
this act to the Lieutenant Governor are hereby transferred to
the Lieutenant Governor with the same force and effect as if the
appropriations had been made to and said items had been the
property of the Lieutenant Governor in the first instance and as
if said contracts, agreements and obligations had been incurred
or entered into by said Lieutenant Governor.] Administrative
functions transferred back to the Board of Pardons.--Upon the
elimination of the office of Lieutenant Governor, the
administrative functions of the Board of Pardons transferred to
the Lieutenant Governor prior to the elimination of the office
of Lieutenant Governor shall be transferred back to the Board of
Pardons. All personnel, allocations, appropriations, equipment,
files, records, contracts, agreements, obligation and other
materials which are used, employed or expended in connection
with the powers, duties or functions transferred prior to the
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elimination of the office of Lieutenant Governor are hereby
transferred back to the Board of Pardons.
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Section 2. Upon the ratification of the amendment to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania abolishing the office of Lieutenant
Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the date
of ratification to be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
Section 3. This act shall take effect as follows:
(1) Section 1 of this act shall take effect upon
publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin of the ratification
date of the amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
that abolishes the office of Lieutenant Governor.
(2) Section 2 of this act and this section shall take
effect immediately.
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