PRINTER'S NO. 612
No. 562 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY RICHARDSON, CARN, HUGHES, R. C. WRIGHT, ROEBUCK
AND JOSEPHS, MARCH 2, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MARCH 2, 1987
AN ACT
1 Providing for the development and operation by the Department of
2 Labor and Industry and the Department of Public Welfare of a
3 program for providing entry-level employment for certain
4 recipients of general assistance in cities of the first
5 class; and making an appropriation.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Short title.
9 This act shall be known and may be cited as the First Class
10 City Youth Employment Assistance Act.
11 Section 2. Program.
12 The Department of Labor and Industry, together with the
13 Department of Public Welfare, shall develop and operate, in
14 cities of the first class, a program for placing into entry-
15 level employment, persons who are under 18 years of age and who
16 have received general assistance.
17 Section 3. Cooperation with other agencies.
18 The departments are hereby authorized to contract with,
19 cooperate with, enter into agreements with and receive financial
1 assistance from any agency of the Federal Government or of the
2 Commonwealth or any city of the first class or any other
3 corporation, organization, association, institution or person in
4 furtherance of the purposes of this act.
5 Section 4. Joint administrative unit.
6 The secretaries of each department may organize a joint
7 administrative unit to administer this act and to be jointly
8 funded by each department from the funds appropriated in this
9 act. The employees of the unit shall be employed in accordance
10 with the act of August 5, 1941 (P.L.752, No.286), known as the
11 Civil Service Act.
12 Section 5. Rules and regulations.
13 The departments may jointly promulgate, in the manner
14 provided by law, the rules and regulations necessary to carry
15 out this act.
16 Section 6. Compliance with welfare code and other acts.
17 Persons obtaining employment through the assistance of this
18 act shall be otherwise subject to all provisions of the act of
19 June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Public Welfare Code,
20 and other acts relating to the receipt of general assistance or
21 other assistance payments by persons who are otherwise gainfully
22 employed.
23 Section 7. Appropriation.
24 The sum of $450,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary,
25 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Labor and Industry
26 and to the Department of Public Welfare to carry out the
27 purposes of this act for the remainder of the current fiscal
28 year.
29 Section 8. Effective date.
30 This act shall take effect in six months.
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