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PRINTER'S NO. 671
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
593
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY STEFANO, WHITE, WARD AND VULAKOVICH,
APRIL 13, 2017
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 13, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled,
as amended, "An act providing for and reorganizing the
conduct of the executive and administrative work of the
Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the
administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers
thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal
Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating,
reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain
administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining
the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and
administrative officers, and of the several administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the
salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain
other executive and administrative officers; providing for
the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of
all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain
departments, boards, and commissions; providing for the
regulation of pari-mutuel thoroughbred horse racing and
harness horse racing activities, imposing certain taxes and
providing for the disposition of funds from pari-mutuel
tickets; and prescribing the manner in which the number and
compensation of the deputies and all other assistants and
employes of certain departments, boards and commissions shall
be determined," in administrative organization, further
providing for qualifications.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 217 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended to
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Section 217. Qualifications of employes.--(a) All deputies,
directors, superintendents, and bureau or division chiefs, and
other employes, shall be persons especially qualified for their
positions by training and experience in the particular kind of
work which their official duties will require them to perform.
(b) An individual who applies for a position or promotion as
an employe in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of
State government must be a resident or former resident of this
Commonwealth. A former resident of this Commonwealth must have
relocated out of State for academic or employment purposes and
agree to establish Commonwealth residency within six months of
beginning employment or assuming the duties of the promotion.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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