PRINTER'S NO. 2118
No. 1742 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY GOODMAN, McCALL, WANSACZ, WARGO, B. F. O'BRIEN,
McLANE, SHUPNIK, MUSTO, W. D. HUTCHINSON, SCIRICA, GATSKI
AND ZITTERMAN, OCTOBER 12, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON MINES AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT,
OCTOBER 12, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," authorizing the Department
21 of Health to contract or award grants for research on coal
22 workers pneumoconiosis.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of April 29, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175),
26 known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," is amended by adding
27 a section to read:
1 Section 2117. Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Program.--The
2 Department of Health shall have the power and its duty shall be
3 to contract or award grants for research on coal workers
4 pneumoconiosis.
5 Section 2. So much as may be necessary of the appropriation
6 to the Department of Health for the operating and purchasing
7 coal workers pneumoconiosis services made in the act of August
8 20, 1977 (No.11-A), known as the "General Appropriation Act of
9 1977," is hereby appropriated to the Department of Health for
10 the purposes of this act.
11 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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