PRINTER'S NO. 609
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
666
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY BULLOCK, HOHENSTEIN, KINSEY, SANCHEZ, MADDEN,
KENYATTA AND GREEN, MARCH 23, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
MARCH 23, 2023
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265), entitled "An
act to promote public health, safety, morals, and welfare by
declaring the necessity of creating public bodies, corporate
and politic, to be known as housing authorities to engage in
slum clearance, and to undertake projects, to provide
dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; providing
for the organization of such housing authorities; defining
their powers and duties; providing for the exercise of such
powers, including the acquisition of property by purchase,
gift or eminent domain, the renting and selling of property,
and including borrowing money, issuing bonds, and other
obligations, and giving security therefor; prescribing the
remedies of obligees of housing authorities; authorizing
housing authorities to enter into agreements, including
agreements with the United States, the Commonwealth, and
political subdivisions and municipalities thereof; defining
the application of zoning, sanitary, and building laws and
regulations to projects built or maintained by such housing
authorities; exempting the property and securities of such
housing authorities from taxation; and imposing duties and
conferring powers upon the State Planning Board, and certain
other State officers and departments," further providing for
organization of an authority.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7(b) of the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955,
No.265), referred to as the Housing Authorities Law, is amended
to read:
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Section 7. Organization of an Authority.--* * *
(b) In an Authority in a city of the first class, the
executive director and staff with executive duties who report
directly to either the executive director or members of the
Authority shall [be at-will employes of the Authority and shall
serve at the pleasure of the members of the Authority. The
Authority shall not provide any payment or other thing of value
to such employes in connection with their separation from
employment, other than salary and benefits to which they are
entitled for regular employment through the date of separation.]
serve in accordance with the terms and conditions approved in
writing by the members of the Authority.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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