PRINTER'S NO. 585
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
560
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY SACCONE, IRVIN, BLOOM, ZIMMERMAN, MENTZER, BARRAR,
GROVE, SIMMONS, KAUFFMAN, McGINNIS, JAMES, MILLARD, COX AND
MOUL, FEBRUARY 21, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 21, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in open meetings, further providing
for executive sessions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 708(a)(2) of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 708. Executive sessions.
(a) Purpose.--An agency may hold an executive session for
one or more of the following reasons:
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(2) To hold information, strategy and negotiation
sessions related to the negotiation or arbitration of a
collective bargaining agreement or, in the absence of a
collective bargaining unit, related to labor relations and
arbitration. This paragraph does not apply to negotiation
sessions related to collective bargaining agreements between
an employee organization and employer as defined in the act
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of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School
Code of 1949.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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