PRINTER'S NO. 2268
No. 1584 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY WAGNER, BODACK, TARTAGLIONE, AFFLERBACH,
STAPLETON, HUGHES, COSTA, WILLIAMS, SCHWARTZ, MUSTO, KITCHEN,
STOUT AND MELLOW, NOVEMBER 10, 1998
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, NOVEMBER 10, 1998
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," further providing for the
21 Pennsylvania State Police.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 710(i) of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
26 amended October 3, 1968 (P.L.1414, No.129), is amended to read:
27 Section 710. Pennsylvania State Police.--The Pennsylvania
1 State Police shall have the power and its duty shall be:
2 * * *
3 (i) To collect information relating to crimes and incidents
4 related to the actual or perceived race, color, religion [or],
5 national origin, disability, ancestry, gender or sexual
6 orientation of individuals or groups, which shall be reported
7 monthly by all local law enforcement agencies and the State Fire
8 Marshal. Any information, records and statistics collected in
9 accordance with this subsection shall be available for use by
10 any agency required to furnish information, to the extent that
11 such information is reasonably necessary or useful to such
12 agency in carrying out the duties imposed on it by law. The
13 Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police may, by
14 regulation, establish such conditions for the use or
15 availability of such information as may be necessary to its
16 preservation, the protection of confidential information, or the
17 circumstances of a pending prosecution.
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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