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AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 153 | ||||||||
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE GIBBONS | ||||||||
Printer's No. 1654 | ||||||||
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4 | Amend Bill, page 1, line 2, by inserting after "Assembly" | |||||||
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10 | Constitution of Pennsylvania are proposed in accordance with | |||||||
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14 | The legislative power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in | |||||||
15 | a General Assembly[, which shall consist of a Senate and a House | |||||||
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20 | general election every second year. Their term of service shall | |||||||
21 | begin on the first day of December next after their election. | |||||||
22 | Whenever a vacancy shall occur [in either House], the presiding | |||||||
23 | officer [thereof] shall issue a writ of election to fill such | |||||||
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27 | [Senators] (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), members | |||||||
28 | shall be elected for the term of four years [and Representatives | |||||||
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32 | districts shall be elected for a term of two years, and members | |||||||
33 | from even-numbered districts shall be elected for a term of four | |||||||
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4 | term for which its [Representatives] members are elected. It | |||||||
5 | shall meet at 12 o'clock noon on the first Tuesday of January | |||||||
6 | each year. Special sessions shall be called by the Governor on | |||||||
7 | petition of a majority of the members [elected to each House] or | |||||||
8 | may be called by the Governor whenever in his opinion the public | |||||||
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12 | [Senators] Members of the General Assembly shall be at least | |||||||
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15 | years, and inhabitants of their respective districts one year | |||||||
16 | next before their election (unless absent on the public business | |||||||
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21 | No [Senator or Representative] member of the General Assembly | |||||||
22 | shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to | |||||||
23 | any civil office under this Commonwealth to which a salary, fee | |||||||
24 | or perquisite is attached. No member of Congress or other person | |||||||
25 | holding any office (except of attorney-at-law or in the National | |||||||
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27 | United States) under the United States or this Commonwealth to | |||||||
28 | which a salary, fee or perquisite is attached shall be a member | |||||||
29 | of [either House] the General Assembly during his continuance in | |||||||
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33 | The members of the General Assembly shall receive such salary | |||||||
34 | and mileage for regular and special sessions as shall be fixed | |||||||
35 | by law, and no other compensation whatever, whether for service | |||||||
36 | upon committee or otherwise. No member of [either House] the | |||||||
37 | General Assembly shall during the term for which he may have | |||||||
38 | been elected, receive any increase of salary, or mileage, under | |||||||
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41 | § 9. Election of officers; judge of election and qualifications | |||||||
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43 | [The Senate shall, at the beginning and close of each regular | |||||||
44 | session and at such other times as may be necessary, elect one | |||||||
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46 | duties of the Lieutenant Governor, in any case of absence or | |||||||
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49 | Representatives] The General Assembly shall elect one of its | |||||||
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51 | officers, and shall judge [of] the election and qualifications | |||||||
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5 | constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day | |||||||
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8 | § 11. Powers of [each house] the General Assembly; expulsion. | |||||||
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10 | determine the rules of its proceedings and punish its members or | |||||||
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12 | presence, to enforce obedience to its process, to protect its | |||||||
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14 | solicitation, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, to expel | |||||||
15 | a member, but not a second time for the same cause, and shall | |||||||
16 | have all other powers necessary for the Legislature of a free | |||||||
17 | State. A member expelled for corruption shall not thereafter be | |||||||
18 | eligible to [either House] the General Assembly, and punishment | |||||||
19 | for contempt or disorderly behavior shall not bar an indictment | |||||||
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23 | [Each House] The General Assembly shall keep a journal of its | |||||||
24 | proceedings and from time to time publish the same, except such | |||||||
25 | parts as require secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members | |||||||
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31 | committees of the whole shall be open, unless when the business | |||||||
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36 | adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than | |||||||
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41 | except treason, felony, violation of their oath of office, and | |||||||
42 | breach or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during | |||||||
43 | their attendance at the sessions of [their respective Houses] | |||||||
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45 | same; and for any speech or debate in [either House] the General | |||||||
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49 | The Commonwealth shall be divided into [50 senatorial and 203 | |||||||
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51 | composed of compact and contiguous territory as nearly equal in | |||||||
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3 | district one Representative] member of the General Assembly. | |||||||
4 | Unless absolutely necessary no county, city, incorporated town, | |||||||
5 | borough, township or ward shall be divided in forming [either a | |||||||
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11 | [four] two of whom shall be the majority and minority leaders of | |||||||
12 | [both the Senate and the House of Representatives] the General | |||||||
13 | Assembly, or deputies appointed by each of them, and a chairman | |||||||
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15 | following the official reporting of the Federal decennial census | |||||||
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17 | certified by the [President pro tempore of the Senate and the | |||||||
18 | Speaker of the House of Representatives] Speaker of the General | |||||||
19 | Assembly to the elections officer of the Commonwealth who under | |||||||
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22 | certification shall select the [fifth] third member, who shall | |||||||
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24 | certify his name to such elections officer. The chairman shall | |||||||
25 | be a citizen of the Commonwealth other than a local, State or | |||||||
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30 | membership of the Supreme Court within 30 days thereafter shall | |||||||
31 | appoint the chairman as aforesaid and certify his appointment to | |||||||
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33 | Any vacancy in the commission shall be filled within 15 days | |||||||
34 | in the same manner in which such position was originally filled. | |||||||
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39 | so altered or amended, on its passage through [either House] the | |||||||
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44 | each House]. All amendments made thereto shall be printed for | |||||||
45 | the use of the members before the final vote is taken on the | |||||||
46 | bill and before the final vote is taken, upon written request | |||||||
47 | addressed to the presiding officer of [either House] the General | |||||||
48 | Assembly by at least 25% of the members elected to [that House] | |||||||
49 | the General Assembly, any bill shall be read at length [in that | |||||||
50 | House]. No bill shall become a law, unless on its final passage | |||||||
51 | the vote is taken by yeas and nays, the names of the persons | |||||||
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8 | elected thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those | |||||||
9 | voting for and against recorded upon the journal thereof; and | |||||||
10 | reports of committees of conference shall be adopted in either | |||||||
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12 | thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting | |||||||
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17 | shall, in the presence of the [House over which he presides] | |||||||
18 | General Assembly, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by | |||||||
19 | the General Assembly, after their titles have been publicly read | |||||||
20 | immediately before signing; and the fact of signing shall be | |||||||
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24 | Every order, resolution or vote, [to which the concurrence of | |||||||
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26 | adjournment, shall be presented to the Governor and before it | |||||||
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28 | shall be repassed by two-thirds of [both Houses] the General | |||||||
29 | Assembly according to the rules and limitations prescribed in | |||||||
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33 | All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of | |||||||
34 | Representatives, but the Senate may propose amendments as in | |||||||
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39 | measure or bill proposed or pending before the General Assembly | |||||||
40 | shall disclose the fact to the [House of which he is a member] | |||||||
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45 | duties and compensation of [the] its officers and employees [of | |||||||
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47 | Treasury, or be in any way authorized, to any person, except to | |||||||
48 | an acting officer or employee elected or appointed in pursuance | |||||||
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2 | educational institution not under the absolute control of the | |||||||
3 | Commonwealth, other than normal schools established by law for | |||||||
4 | the professional training of teachers for the public schools of | |||||||
5 | the State, except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members | |||||||
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8 | § 2. Duties of Governor; election procedure; tie or contest. | |||||||
9 | The supreme executive power shall be vested in the Governor, | |||||||
10 | who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed; he | |||||||
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12 | qualified electors of the Commonwealth, at the places where they | |||||||
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14 | Assembly. The returns of every election for Governor shall be | |||||||
15 | sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to | |||||||
16 | the [President of the Senate] Speaker of the General Assembly, | |||||||
17 | who shall open and publish them in the presence of the members | |||||||
18 | [of both Houses] of the General Assembly. The person having the | |||||||
19 | highest number of votes shall be Governor, but if two or more be | |||||||
20 | equal and highest in votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor | |||||||
21 | by the [joint] vote of the members of [both Houses] the General | |||||||
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24 | Assembly, and formed and regulated in such manner as shall be | |||||||
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30 | applicable to both offices, for the same term, and subject to | |||||||
31 | the same provisions as the Governor[; he shall be President of | |||||||
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33 | question except the final passage of a bill or joint resolution, | |||||||
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39 | such other officers as he shall be authorized by law to appoint. | |||||||
40 | The appointment of the Secretary of Education and of such other | |||||||
41 | officers as may be specified by law, shall be subject to the | |||||||
42 | consent of two-thirds or a majority of the members elected to | |||||||
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44 | (b) The Governor shall fill vacancies in offices to which he | |||||||
45 | appoints by nominating to the [Senate] General Assembly a proper | |||||||
46 | person to fill the vacancy within 90 days of the first day of | |||||||
47 | the vacancy and not thereafter. The [Senate] General Assembly | |||||||
48 | shall act on each executive nomination within 25 legislative | |||||||
49 | days of its submission. If the [Senate] General Assembly has not | |||||||
50 | voted upon a nomination within 15 legislative days following | |||||||
51 | such submission, any [five] 25 members of the [Senate] General | |||||||
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1 | Assembly may, in writing, request the presiding officer of the | |||||||
2 | [Senate] General Assembly to place the nomination before the | |||||||
3 | entire [Senate] General Assembly body whereby the nomination | |||||||
4 | must be voted upon prior to the expiration of five legislative | |||||||
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8 | General Assembly shall act upon it within 25 legislative days | |||||||
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10 | Assembly for any reason fails to act upon a nomination submitted | |||||||
11 | to it within the required 25 legislative days, the nominee shall | |||||||
12 | take office as if the appointment had been consented to by the | |||||||
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14 | manner fill vacancies in the offices of Lieutenant Governor, | |||||||
15 | Auditor General, State Treasurer, justice, judge, justice of the | |||||||
16 | peace and in any other elective office he is authorized to fill. | |||||||
17 | In the case of a vacancy in an elective office, a person shall | |||||||
18 | be elected to the office on the next election day appropriate to | |||||||
19 | the office unless the first day of the vacancy is within two | |||||||
20 | calendar months immediately preceding the election day in which | |||||||
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23 | (c) In acting on executive nominations, the [Senate] General | |||||||
24 | Assembly shall sit with open doors. The votes shall be taken by | |||||||
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30 | reprieves, commutation of sentences and pardons; but no pardon | |||||||
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32 | recommendation in writing of a majority of the Board of Pardons, | |||||||
33 | and, in the case of a sentence of death or life imprisonment, on | |||||||
34 | the unanimous recommendation in writing of the Board of Pardons, | |||||||
35 | after full hearing in open session, upon due public notice. The | |||||||
36 | recommendation, with the reasons therefor at length, shall be | |||||||
37 | delivered to the Governor and a copy thereof shall be kept on | |||||||
38 | file in the office of the Lieutenant Governor in a docket kept | |||||||
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41 | Governor who shall be chairman, the Attorney General and three | |||||||
42 | members appointed by the Governor with the consent of a majority | |||||||
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44 | terms of six years. The three members appointed by the Governor | |||||||
45 | shall be residents of Pennsylvania. One shall be a crime victim, | |||||||
46 | one a corrections expert and the third a doctor of medicine, | |||||||
47 | psychiatrist or psychologist. The board shall keep records of | |||||||
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2 | Assembly[, and in case of disagreement between the two Houses, | |||||||
3 | with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such | |||||||
4 | time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months]. He | |||||||
5 | shall have power to convene the [Senate] General Assembly in | |||||||
6 | extraordinary session by proclamation for the transaction of | |||||||
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11 | qualify or resignation of the Lieutenant Governor[, or in case | |||||||
12 | he should become Governor under section 13 of this article, the | |||||||
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14 | Governor for the remainder of the term] , the Governor shall | |||||||
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16 | Lieutenant Governor. The appointment shall be subject to the | |||||||
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20 | Lieutenant Governor, the powers, duties and emoluments of the | |||||||
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22 | Senate] Speaker of the General Assembly until the disability is | |||||||
23 | removed. Should there be no Lieutenant Governor, the [President | |||||||
24 | pro tempore of the Senate] Speaker of the General Assembly shall | |||||||
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27 | powers, duties and emoluments of the office shall devolve upon | |||||||
28 | the [President pro tempore of the Senate] Speaker of the General | |||||||
29 | Assembly until the disability is removed. His seat as [Senator] | |||||||
30 | member of the General Assembly shall become vacant whenever he | |||||||
31 | shall become Governor and shall be filled by election as any | |||||||
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35 | Every bill which shall have passed [both Houses] the General | |||||||
36 | Assembly shall be presented to the Governor; if he approves he | |||||||
37 | shall sign it, but if he shall not approve he shall return it | |||||||
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41 | consider it. If after such re-consideration, two-thirds of all | |||||||
42 | the members elected to [that House] the General Assembly shall | |||||||
43 | agree to pass the bill, [it shall be sent with the objections to | |||||||
44 | the other House by which likewise it shall be re-considered, and | |||||||
45 | if approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to that | |||||||
46 | House] it shall be a law; but in such cases the votes of [both | |||||||
47 | Houses] the General Assembly shall be determined by yeas and | |||||||
48 | nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the | |||||||
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50 | respectively] journal. If any bill shall not be returned by the | |||||||
51 | Governor within ten days after it shall have been presented to | |||||||
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1 | him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed | |||||||
2 | it, unless the General Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent | |||||||
3 | its return, in which case it shall be a law, unless he shall | |||||||
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5 | Secretary of the Commonwealth, and give notice thereof by public | |||||||
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9 | § 13. Election of justices, judges and justices of the peace; | |||||||
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13 | the peace shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The | |||||||
14 | appointment shall be with the advice and consent of two-thirds | |||||||
15 | of the members elected to the [Senate] General Assembly, except | |||||||
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17 | majority. The person so appointed shall serve for a term ending | |||||||
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19 | election more than ten months after the vacancy occurs or for | |||||||
20 | the remainder of the unexpired term whichever is less, except in | |||||||
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22 | Superior Court, where the General Assembly may stagger and fix | |||||||
23 | the length of the initial terms of such additional judges by | |||||||
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25 | elections more than ten months after the additional judges are | |||||||
26 | selected. The manner by which any additional judges are selected | |||||||
27 | shall be provided by this section for the filling of vacancies | |||||||
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31 | Commonwealth may elect to have the justices and judges of the | |||||||
32 | Supreme, Superior, Commonwealth and all other statewide courts | |||||||
33 | appointed by the Governor from a list of persons qualified for | |||||||
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35 | Commission. If a majority vote of those voting on the question | |||||||
36 | is in favor of this method of appointment, then whenever any | |||||||
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38 | Governor shall fill the vacancy by appointment in the manner | |||||||
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51 | Constitution of this Commonwealth and that I will discharge the | |||||||
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11 | impeachment.] The General Assembly shall have the sole power of | |||||||
12 | impeachment. A majority of the members elected to the General | |||||||
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14 | impeachment may be initiated in either a regular session or a | |||||||
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18 | [All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When sitting | |||||||
19 | for that purpose the Senators shall be upon oath or affirmation. | |||||||
20 | No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two- | |||||||
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23 | reasonable notice of the acts or omissions alleged to constitute | |||||||
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25 | style, a notice of an impeachment of any officer, other than a | |||||||
26 | justice of the Supreme Court, shall be forthwith served upon the | |||||||
27 | Chief Justice, by the Clerk of the General Assembly, who shall | |||||||
28 | thereupon call a session of the Supreme Court to meet at the | |||||||
29 | Capitol in an expeditious fashion after such notice to try the | |||||||
30 | impeachment. A notice of an impeachment of the Chief Justice or | |||||||
31 | any justice of the Supreme Court shall be served by the Clerk of | |||||||
32 | the General Assembly, upon the President Judge of the Superior | |||||||
33 | Court, and he or she thereupon shall choose, at random, seven | |||||||
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35 | Capitol, to sit as a court to try such impeachment, which court | |||||||
36 | shall organize by electing one of its number to preside. The | |||||||
37 | case against the impeached civil officer shall be brought in the | |||||||
38 | name of the General Assembly and shall be managed by two members | |||||||
39 | of the General Assembly, appointed by the General Assembly, who | |||||||
40 | may make technical or procedural amendments to the articles of | |||||||
41 | impeachment as they deem necessary. The trial shall be conducted | |||||||
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43 | officer shall not be allowed to invoke a privilege against self- | |||||||
44 | incrimination, except as otherwise applicable in a general civil | |||||||
45 | case. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of | |||||||
46 | two-thirds of the members of the court of impeachment that clear | |||||||
47 | and convincing evidence exists indicating that such person is | |||||||
48 | guilty of one or more impeachable offenses. No officer shall | |||||||
49 | exercise his or her official duties after he or she shall have | |||||||
50 | been impeached and notified thereof, until he or she shall have | |||||||
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10 | Lieutenant Governor, members of the General Assembly and judges | |||||||
11 | of the courts of record, shall be removed by the Governor for | |||||||
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16 | The general election shall be held biennially on the Tuesday | |||||||
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19 | different day, two-thirds of all the members [of each House] | |||||||
20 | consenting thereto: Provided, That such election shall always be | |||||||
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23 | § 3. Municipal election day; offices to be filled on election | |||||||
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25 | All judges elected by the electors of the State at large may | |||||||
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28 | courts for the several judicial districts, and for county, city, | |||||||
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30 | service, shall be held on the municipal election day; namely, | |||||||
31 | the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November in each | |||||||
32 | odd-numbered year, but the General Assembly may by law fix a | |||||||
33 | different day, two-thirds of all the members [of each House] | |||||||
34 | consenting thereto: Provided, That such elections shall be held | |||||||
35 | in an odd-numbered year: Provided further, That all judges for | |||||||
36 | the courts of the several judicial districts holding office at | |||||||
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7 | the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected | |||||||
8 | [to each House] thereto, such proposed amendment or amendments | |||||||
9 | shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken | |||||||
10 | thereon, and the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the | |||||||
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12 | election, in at least two newspapers in every county in which | |||||||
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17 | Commonwealth shall cause the same again to be published in the | |||||||
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19 | shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the State in | |||||||
20 | such manner, and at such time at least three months after being | |||||||
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24 | thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of the | |||||||
25 | Constitution; but no amendment or amendments shall be submitted | |||||||
26 | oftener than once in five years. When two or more amendments | |||||||
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29 | threaten the Commonwealth and if the safety or welfare of the | |||||||
30 | Commonwealth requires prompt amendment of this Constitution, | |||||||
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32 | [Senate or House of Representatives] General Assembly at any | |||||||
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34 | agreed to by at least two-thirds of the members elected [to each | |||||||
35 | House] thereto, a proposed amendment shall be entered on the | |||||||
36 | journal of [each House] the General Assembly with the yeas and | |||||||
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38 | elections shall promptly publish such proposed amendment in at | |||||||
39 | least two newspapers in every county in which such newspapers | |||||||
40 | are published. Such amendment shall then be submitted to the | |||||||
41 | qualified electors of the Commonwealth in such manner, and at | |||||||
42 | such time, at least one month after being agreed to by [both | |||||||
43 | Houses] the General Assembly as the General Assembly prescribes. | |||||||
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45 | the qualified electors voting thereon, it shall become part of | |||||||
46 | this Constitution. When two or more emergency amendments are | |||||||
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51 | comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article | |||||||
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3 | which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after | |||||||
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5 | (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of these | |||||||
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9 | Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required | |||||||
10 | advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such | |||||||
11 | newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of | |||||||
12 | these proposed constitutional amendments. The Secretary of the | |||||||
13 | Commonwealth shall submit the proposed constitutional amendments | |||||||
14 | under section 1 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth | |||||||
15 | as a single ballot question at the first primary, general or | |||||||
16 | municipal election which meets the requirements of and is in | |||||||
17 | conformance with section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution of | |||||||
18 | Pennsylvania and which occurs at least three months after the | |||||||
19 | proposed constitutional amendments are passed by the General | |||||||
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