PRINTER'S NO. 1305
No. 1148 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY VAN HORNE, BELARDI, MASLAND, WAUGH, KREBS,
TRAVAGLIO, VEON, JOSEPHS, CARONE AND CASORIO, APRIL 3, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 3, 1997
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," providing for the
21 Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission as an independent
22 administrative commission.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 201 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
26 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, amended
27 December 30, 1984 (P.L.1299, No.245) and repealed in part May
1 26, 1988 (P.L.414, No.72), is amended to read:
2 Section 201. Executive Officers, Administrative Departments
3 and Independent Administrative Boards and Commissions.--The
4 executive and administrative work of this Commonwealth shall be
5 performed by the Executive Department, consisting of the
6 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth,
7 Attorney General, Auditor General, State Treasurer, and
8 Secretary of Education; by the Executive Board, and the
9 Pennsylvania State Police; by the following administrative
10 departments: Department of State, Office of Attorney General,
11 Department of Corrections, Department of the Auditor General,
12 Treasury Department, Department of Education, Department of
13 Military Affairs, Insurance Department, Department of Banking,
14 Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation,
15 Department of Health, Department of Labor and Industry,
16 Department of Aging, Department of Public Welfare, Department of
17 General Services, Department of Revenue, Department of Commerce,
18 Department of Community Affairs and Department of Environmental
19 Resources; and by the following independent administrative
20 boards and commissions: Pennsylvania Game Commission,
21 Pennsylvania Fish Commission, State Civil Service Commission,
22 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission [and], the Pennsylvania
23 Securities Commission and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
24 All of the provisions of this act, which apply generally to
25 administrative departments, or generally except to the
26 Department of the Auditor General, the Treasury Department and
27 the Office of Attorney General, shall apply to the Executive
28 Board and to the Pennsylvania State Police.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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