PRINTER'S NO. 3787
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
1002
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY CHARLTON, JUNE 21, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, JUNE 21, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Endorsing and encouraging participation in the Valley Forge
Military College Legislative Appointment Initiative Program.
WHEREAS, The Valley Forge Military College Legislative
Appointment Initiative Program (Initiative Program) serves to
identify young men and women who possess or have demonstrated
the highest physical, intellectual, moral and leadership
potential and service-to-country-orientation and who have an
interest in attending the two-year, postsecondary educational
institution at Valley Forge Military College, the official
Military College of Pennsylvania and to help facilitate their
receipt of financial assistance to attend the college; and
WHEREAS, The Initiative Program may be used to complement the
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and the Early
Commissioning Program (ECP), and students who are accepted into
the ECP at Valley Forge Military College are commissioned as
officers in the United States Army upon graduation and are also
awarded a scholarship and earnings; and
WHEREAS, The Initiative Program is open to all men and women,
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regardless of race, creed, ethnicity or nationality, who are
legal residents of this Commonwealth, who have successfully
completed and graduated from a secondary school and who are
believed to possess the intellectual, moral and leadership
potential and the skills or accomplishments to successfully
matriculate at the official Military College of Pennsylvania or
who otherwise meet the academic, intellectual, moral and
physical eligibility standards of the college; and
WHEREAS, Each representative is authorized to establish a
committee to select a legislative appointee to the freshman
class each year; and
WHEREAS, Upon acceptance, a certificate will be issued by
Valley Forge Military College evidencing the legislative
appointment and the member of the House of Representatives
whose committee selected the appointee; and
WHEREAS, Upon admission, each legislative appointee will be
required to take the oath of allegiance administered by Valley
Forge Military College to support and defend the Constitution of
the United States and of this Commonwealth; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That this resolution is intended to be a
continuation of the past practices of the House of
Representatives under the act of April 12, 2012 (P.L.232,
No.29), known as the State Military College Legislative
Appointment Initiative Program Act; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the guidelines used to govern local selection
committees to help ensure that the selection committees and
legislative appointments do not create any conflicts of interest
or otherwise violate 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 11 (relating to ethics
standards and financial disclosure) or the act of July 10, 1968
(P.L.316, No.154), known as the Legislative Code of Ethics be
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the guidelines developed by the State Ethics Commission under
the State Military College Legislative Appointment Initiative
Program Act; and be it further
RESOLVED, That members of the House of Representatives
continue to establish local selection committees to identify and
select applicants for appointment in accordance with the
guidelines developed by the State Ethics Commission under the
State Military College Legislative Appointment Initiative
Program Act and the past practices of the House of
Representatives.
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