PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 481
PRINTER'S NO. 853
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
490
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, SCAVELLO, WHITE, BROOKS, WARD, VULAKOVICH,
ALLOWAY, RAFFERTY, VANCE AND MENSCH, FEBRUARY 20, 2015
SENATOR VULAKOVICH, VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
AS AMENDED, MAY 5, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Emergency Management
Agency, further providing for organization of agency.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7312(e) of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 7312. Organization.
This agency shall consist of and be organized substantially
as follows:
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(e) State director.--To supervise the work and activities
comprising the State Civil Defense and Disaster Program, the
Governor shall appoint, subject to the consent of a majority of
the members elected to the Senate, an individual to act, on a
full-time basis, as director of the agency. The director shall
perform all such fiscal, planning, administrative, operational
and other duties as may be assigned to him by the council and
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shall act as the chairman's principal assistant in civil defense
and disaster matters. The director or the director's designee is
also the State coordinating officer responsible to coordinate
and supervise the Commonwealth and local disaster response
effort following a presidential declaration of an emergency or a
major disaster.
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Section 2. The Governor shall nominate a person for the
position of Director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management
Agency within 30 days of the effective date of this section. THE
AMENDMENT OF 35 PA.C.S. § 7312(E) SHALL APPLY TO DIRECTORS OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY WHO ARE APPOINTED
AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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