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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | February 4, 2016 12:12 PM |
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| From: | Senator Mike Folmer |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Modified NDAA Non-Compliance |
| I recently reintroduced my bill (previously Senate Bill 999) to exempt Pennsylvania from the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) pertaining to the “indefinite detention” of certain persons by the United States government: Senate Bill 1111. However, with continuing concerns over the impacts of SB 1111, I have worked with a number of interested parties to modify this measure and hopefully address some of these concerns. While the modified bill is fashioned from model legislation deliberated by other states, the goal remains the same: exempt Pennsylvania from NDAA to protect Pennsylvanians’ due process rights. NDAA is an annual federal law establishing the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. Each year's act also includes enactment of various other laws relating to the defense of our country. Since 2012, NDAA allows the United States President to order the military to seize people – including American citizens anywhere in the world (including America itself, not necessarily on a battlefield) and detain them indefinitely without due process. During the Bush administration, similar detentions were used to hold a US citizen detained on US soil in military custody without affording him the same due process rights guaranteed all Americans under the United States Constitution. Exempting Pennsylvania from the 2012 NDAA law is an important first step in protecting American’s rights of due process. I hope you will agree and join me in supporting this modified measure. Thank you. |
Introduced as SB1150