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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 15, 2014 03:43 PM |
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| From: | Senator Christine M. Tartaglione |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Co-Sponsorship of Legislation: PA Center for Health Careers |
| In the near future, I intend to introduce legislation that would amend the Workforce Development Act to permanently establish the Pennsylvania Center for Health Careers within the Department of Labor and Industry. The Center for Health Careers was created in 2004 to address challenges in the state’s healthcare workforce. In 2010, Senate Bill 174 (Tartaglione) was enacted to establish this program by law, so that the state’s healthcare industry would continue to grow and flourish in the future. Unfortunately, while it was my intent to make the center permanent, a sunset provision was amended into this bill prior to its passage. As a result, under current law, the center is scheduled to expire on June 30, 2015. For this reason, I am offering legislation to remove the Chapter 11 expiration date from the Workforce Development Act. With a large senior population and a growing number of disabled residents, the vitality of Pennsylvanians depends upon the functionality of the state’s health-related industries, and, most importantly, the quality and size of this workforce. While the Center for Health Careers has been working to identify and develop solutions to such problems as education, employee recruitment and retention and diversity, the center’s work will not be complete by 2015. Its work is equally necessary now and in years to come in order to improve and maintain Pennsylvania’s healthcare workforce. As such, I hope you will support the residents and health professionals of Pennsylvania by signing onto this important piece of legislation. |
Introduced as SB268