THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY SIPTROTH, BAKER, BELFANTI, BEYER, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CONKLIN, D. COSTA, DeLUCA, GRUCELA, KAUFFMAN, KOTIK, MELIO, M. O'BRIEN, PEIFER, QUINN, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROSS, SCAVELLO, SOLOBAY, THOMAS, VULAKOVICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 6, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 6, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the

Executive Department thereof and the administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

officers, and of the several administrative departments,

boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," further providing for the

Pennsylvania State Police; and repealing the act of December

13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100).

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 205(b) of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.

177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, amended

July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12), is amended to read:

Section 205.  Pennsylvania State Police.--* * *

(b)  The State Police Force shall consist of such number of

officers and men, and shall be organized in such manner, as the

Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of

the Governor, shall from time to time determine.[: Provided,

however, That the number of officers and men shall not exceed in

the aggregate at any time three thousand nine hundred and forty

persons. State policemen, both officers and men, assigned to

duty with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission or assigned to

duty as resident State troopers, shall not be counted in

determining the total number of officers and men in the State

Police Force.]

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Section 2.  Repeals are as follows:

(1)  The General Assembly declares that the repeal under

paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the amendment of

section 205 of the act.

(2)  The act of December 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100),

entitled "An act repealing in part a limitation on the

complement of the Pennsylvania State Police," is repealed.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.