PRINTER'S NO. 2189
No. 1758 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY EVANS AND WESTON, SEPTEMBER 30, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 6, 1941 (P.L.861, No.323), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act to create a uniform and exclusive system
3 for the administration of parole in this Commonwealth;
4 providing state probation services; establishing the
5 'Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole'; conferring and
6 defining its jurisdiction, duties, powers and functions;
7 including the supervision of persons placed upon probation
8 and parole in certain designated cases; providing for the
9 method of appointment of its members; regulating the
10 appointment, removal and discharge of its officers, clerks
11 and employes; dividing the Commonwealth into administrative
12 districts for purposes of probation and parole; fixing the
13 salaries of members of the board and of certain other
14 officers and employes thereof; making violations of certain
15 provisions of this act misdemeanors; providing penalties
16 therefor; and for other cognate purposes, and making an
17 appropriation," further providing for the job classification
18 of parole agents.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 12 of the act of August 6, 1941 (P.L.861,
22 No.323), referred to as the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
23 Parole Law, amended December 27, 1965 (P.L.1230, No.501), is
24 amended to read:
25 Section 12. The board shall appoint in the various district
1 offices a sufficient number of parole officers, clerks,
2 stenographers and other agents and employes to fully and
3 efficiently administer the parole laws of this Commonwealth, but
4 no employe of the board, other than its secretary, and district
5 supervisors shall be appointed by the board except in the manner
6 hereinafter provided. The salaries of such appointees as
7 aforesaid shall be fixed by the board. The board may increase
8 the job classification of parole agents across the entire range
9 at such level as the board may fix. It shall be the duty of the
10 board from time to time by appropriate rule or regulation to
11 prescribe the qualifications to be possessed by its personnel.
12 Said qualifications shall be such as will best promote the
13 efficient operation of probation and parole.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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