A07531
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1019
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY VULAKOVICH, COSTA, BAKER, BREWSTER, BROOKS,
EICHELBERGER, FONTANA, GORDNER, HUGHES, MENSCH, RAFFERTY,
SCHWANK, STEFANO, TARTAGLIONE AND YAW, JANUARY 17, 2018
REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
JANUARY 17, 2018
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in general provisions, further
providing for definitions and for purposes of part; in
Commonwealth services, further providing for general
authority of Governor, for temporary housing, for debris and
wreckage removal, for community disaster loans, for
individual and family assistance and for grants for hazard
mitigation, providing for use and appropriation of unused
Commonwealth funds, establishing the Disaster Emergency Fund,
further providing for laws suspended during emergency
assignments, providing for penalty for false application and
further providing for organization, for powers and duties of
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, for utilization of
existing services and facilities and for radiological
emergency response preparedness, planning and recovery
program; and providing for online training for firefighters;
in volunteer firefighters, further providing for funds; in
local organizations and services, further providing for
general authority of political subdivisions, for local
coordinator of emergency management, for powers and duties of
political subdivisions, for coordination, assistance and
mutual aid, for appropriations by political subdivisions, for
law applicable to local organizations, for agreements among
political subdivisions, for payments involving one political
subdivision and for payments involving two or more political
subdivisions and providing for regional all-hazards
preparedness and emergency management; in Emergency
Management Assistance Compact, further providing for
budgetary considerations and providing for protections; in
miscellaneous provisions, further providing for duties
concerning disaster prevention, for acceptance of services,
gifts, grants and loans, for interstate arrangements and for
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