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AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 14
Sponsor: SENATOR K. WARD
Printer's No. 936
Amend Bill, page 1, line 1, by striking out "EMERGENCY"
Amend Bill, page 2, lines 28 through 30; pages 3 and 4, lines
1 through 30; page 5, lines 1 through 8; by striking out all of
said lines on said pages and inserting
Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That Section 11 of Article I be amended to read:
ยง 11. Courts to be open; suits against the Commonwealth.
(a) All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury
done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have
remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered
without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the
Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and in such cases as
the Legislature may by law direct.
(b) An individual for whom a statutory limitations period
has already expired, or whose claim would otherwise be barred or
limited by a statutory cap on damages, sovereign immunity or by
governmental or official immunity, shall have a period of two
years, without bar or limitation by such caps or immunities,
from the time that this subsection becomes effective to commence
an action arising from childhood sexual abuse, in such cases as
provided by law at the time that this subsection becomes
effective.
Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
(b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
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advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
primary, general or municipal election which meets the
requirements of and is in conformance with section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and which occurs at least
three months after the proposed constitutional amendment is
passed by the General Assembly.
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