Bill Text: PA SB572 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for the Pennsylvania State Police; and repealing an act relating to limitation on complement of the Pennsylvania State police.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-06-25 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [SB572 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB572-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 583
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 572 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, LOGAN, GORDNER, TARTAGLIONE, WASHINGTON, BRUBAKER, BAKER, O'PAKE, WAUGH, ALLOWAY AND M. WHITE, MARCH 4, 2009
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 4, 2009
AN ACT
Amending 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," further providing for the
Pennsylvania State Police; and repealing an act relating to
limitation on complement of the Pennsylvania State police.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 205(a), (b), (c) and (g) of the act of
April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative
Code of 1929, amended or added July 25, 1963 (P.L.278, No.148),
July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12) and repealed in part December 13,
2001 (P.L.903, No.100), is amended to read:
Section 205. Pennsylvania State Police.--(a) The
Pennsylvania State Police shall consist of a Commissioner, [a
Deputy Commissioner, the State police force, and the State
Highway Patrol] Deputy Commissioners and enlisted members, as
now authorized by law, which are hereby consolidated into one
force, to be known as the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania
State Police, and such chiefs, statisticians, clerks, experts
and other assistants, as the commissioner, with the approval of
the Governor, shall deem necessary for the work of the force.
(b) The [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State Police shall
consist of such number of officers and [men] enlisted members,
and shall be organized in such manner, as the Commissioner of
Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of the Governor,
shall from time to time determine: Provided, however, That the
number of officers and [men] enlisted members shall not exceed
in the aggregate at any time [three thousand nine hundred and
forty] four thousand three hundred ten persons. State policemen,
both officers and [men] enlisted members, assigned to duty with
the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission [or assigned to duty as
resident State troopers], Delaware River Toll Bridge Commission,
Gaming Enforcement and Liquor Control Enforcement shall not be
counted in determining the total number of officers and [men]
enlisted members in the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State
Police.
(c) The members of the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania
State Police and the chiefs, statisticians, clerks, experts, and
other assistants, engaged in the work of the Pennsylvania State
Police shall be appointed by the commissioner, and shall receive
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such compensation as shall be fixed by the commissioner, with
the approval of the Governor, which compensation shall, however,
conform to the standards established by the Executive Board.
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[(g) The Pennsylvania State Police force shall include, but
not be limited to, two underwater search teams, one of which
shall be in eastern Pennsylvania and one of which shall be in
western Pennsylvania.]
Section 2. Repeals are as follows:
(1) The General Assembly declares that the repeal under
paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the amendment of
section 205 of the act.
(2) The act of December 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100),
entitled "An act repealing in part a limitation on the
complement of the Pennsylvania State Police," is repealed.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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