PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 3538
No. 2472 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY ARMSTRONG, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BUNT, CAPPELLI,
CLARK, CREIGHTON, FEESE, FORCIER, HORSEY, JAMES, KELLER,
KIRKLAND, LEH, MAHER, METCALFE, R. MILLER, PISTELLA, ROHRER,
RUBLEY, SAYLOR, SHANER, TRICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 27, 2002
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 27, 2002
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, changing provisions relating to judicial
3 administration.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
7 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
8 That section 10(c) of Article V be amended to read:
9 § 10. Judicial administration.
10 * * *
11 (c) The Supreme Court shall have the power to prescribe
12 general rules governing practice, procedure and the conduct of
13 all courts, justices of the peace and all officers serving
14 process or enforcing orders, judgments or decrees of any court
15 or justice of the peace, including the power to provide for
16 assignment and reassignment of classes of actions or classes of
17 appeals among the several courts as the needs of justice shall
1 require, and for admission to the bar and to practice law, and
2 the administration of all courts and supervision of all officers
3 of the Judicial Branch, if such rules are consistent with this
4 Constitution and neither abridge, enlarge nor modify the
5 substantive rights of any litigant, nor affect the right of the
6 General Assembly to determine the jurisdiction of any court or
7 justice of the peace, nor suspend nor alter any statute of
8 limitation or repose. [All laws shall be suspended to the extent
9 that they are inconsistent with rules prescribed under these
10 provisions.]
11 * * *
12 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
13 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
14 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
15 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
16 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
17 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
18 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
19 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
20 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
21 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
22 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
23 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
24 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
25 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
26 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
27 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
28 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
29 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
30 primary, general or municipal election occurring at least three
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1 months after the proposed constitutional amendment is passed by
2 the General Assembly.
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