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05/17/2024 12:59 PM
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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: February 15, 2024 01:16 PM
From: Senator Jarrett Coleman
To: All Senate members
Subject: A Clean Slate for Licensed Professionals Impacted by COVID-19 Disaster Declaration
 
On March 19, 2020 then-Governor Wolf ordered all “non-life sustaining” businesses to close. Enforcement actions against non-compliant businesses began two days later. Over the course of the extended state of emergency, licensing boards and committees took varying disciplinary measures against licensees.
 
I will be introducing legislation directing the Department of State to reinstate any license, registration, certificate or permit that was suspended or revoked specifically for failure to comply with COVID-19 protocols set forth by Governor Wolf and the Secretary of Health during the disaster emergency related to COVID that began on March 6, 2020.

The legislation will also require licensing boards and commissions to remove any disciplinary actions taken against a licensee for failure to comply with the COVID-19 protocols.

The people of Pennsylvania have already taken steps preventing indefinite states of emergency from being declared in the future. Today, we have an opportunity to clear the records of Pennsylvania’s professionals and license holders who went back to work without “permission” because they needed to feed their families.

Introduced as SB1135