THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY SMUCKER, FOLMER, BRUBAKER, ALLOWAY, TOMLINSON, EICHELBERGER, BAKER, BROWNE, RAFFERTY, ROBBINS, WARD, VOGEL, ERICKSON, ORIE, VANCE, PILEGGI, WOZNIAK, PICCOLA, CORMAN, STACK, LOGAN, YAW, COSTA, WAUGH AND SCARNATI, FEBRUARY 6, 2009

REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 6, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, further providing for a penalty.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 714 of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 714.  Penalty.

Any member of any agency who participates in a meeting with

the intent and purpose by that member of violating this chapter

commits a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be

sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding [$100] $1,000 plus costs

of prosecution[.] for a first offense and a fine not exceeding

$2,000 plus costs of prosecution for a second or subsequent

offense. An agency shall not make a payment on behalf of or

reimburse a member of an agency for a fine or cost resulting

from the member's violation of this section.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.