Bill Text: PA HR538 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Remembering John Wesley Hartman of the City of Lancaster, former director of the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-11-17 - Referred to RULES [HR538 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR538-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2912
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 538 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY STURLA, BEAR, BELFANTI, BEYER, BISHOP, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, COHEN, CONKLIN, D. COSTA, CUTLER, DENLINGER, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRELL, GROVE, GRUCELA, HELM, HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAJOR, MANN, MARSICO, McCALL, MILLARD, MILLER, MOUL, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PARKER, PRESTON, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, STABACK, SWANGER, TRUE, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WHEATLEY, WHITE, LEVDANSKY AND BOYD, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Remembering John Wesley Hartman of the City of Lancaster, former
director of the Legislative Reference Bureau.
WHEREAS, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has lost a valued
public servant; and
WHEREAS, John Wesley Hartman died October 9, 2009, at 79
years of age; and
WHEREAS, A graduate of J.P. McCaskey High School, Franklin
and Marshall College and Dickinson School of Law, Mr. Hartman
served with the United States Army in Japan from 1954 through
1956; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hartman led a private law practice and served as
earned income tax officer and city solicitor for the City of
Lancaster before joining the Legislative Reference Bureau in
Harrisburg, where he worked as a drafting attorney from 1965
through 1970; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hartman additionally served as staff attorney
for the 1968 Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention; and
WHEREAS, From 1971 through 1988, Mr. Hartman served the
General Assembly as House Democratic Caucus legal counsel and
chief legal counsel; and
WHEREAS, The General Assembly elected Mr. Hartman director of
the Legislative Reference Bureau in January 1989; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hartman was reelected as bureau director in 1991
and 1993; and
WHEREAS, In addition to his knowledge of State government,
Mr. Hartman deeply respected Lancaster County history and
traditions and possessed an abiding enthusiasm for athletics;
and
WHEREAS, Joan Hartman, his daughter, and Jane Hartman
Fahnestock, his sister, preceded Mr. Hartman in death; therefore
be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives extend its
deepest sympathies to Mr. Hartman's family, including his wife
of 58 years, Joyce Wilson Hartman, his daughters, Susan Sayre,
Julia Hunter, Rebecca Hartman, Amy Nichols, Beth Plonk and Mary
Hartman and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives remember John
Wesley Hartman of the City of Lancaster, former director of the
Legislative Reference Bureau, with profound appreciation for Mr.
Hartman's leadership and service on behalf of this Commonwealth;
and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to
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Mrs. Joyce Wilson Hartman, 237 Lancaster Avenue, Lancaster PA
17603.
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