PRINTER'S NO. 203
No. 182 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY IRVIS, BUTERA AND MANDERINO, FEBRUARY 3, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, FEBRUARY 3, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 19, 1974 (No.175), entitled "An act
2 requiring public agencies to hold certain meetings and
3 hearings open to the public and providing penalties,"
4 providing for public notice in case of certain meetings of
5 the General Assembly and excepting meetings of the Ethics
6 Committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 5, act of July 19, 1974 (No.175),
10 entitled "An act requiring public agencies to hold certain
11 meetings and hearings open to the public and providing
12 penalties," is amended by adding a subsection to read:
13 Section 5. * * *
14 (g) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the
15 contrary, in case of sessions of the General Assembly, all
16 meetings of legislative committees to be held within the Capitol
17 complex where bills are considered, and all legislative hearings
18 to be held within the Capitol complex where testimony is taken,
19 the requirement for public notice thereof shall be complied with
20 if within the time limits prescribed by this section:
1 (1) the Supervisor of the Newsroom of the State Capitol
2 Building in Harrisburg is supplied for distribution to the
3 members of the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents
4 Association with a minimum of thirty copies of the notice of the
5 date, time and place of each session, meeting or hearing:
6 Provided, That where the prescribed notice has been supplied
7 containing the specific number of days of a week scheduled for
8 legislative sessions of the House or Senate, but the House or
9 Senate thereafter determines to be in a greater number of
10 session days than that originally scheduled for such week, the
11 public notice requirement for such additional session days shall
12 be deemed complied with, if the Speaker of the House or
13 presiding officer of the Senate, as the case may be, makes
14 public announcement during open meeting of a regularly scheduled
15 session of the date, time and place of the additional session
16 day or days and notice is posted as prescribed by this section;
17 and
18 (2) there is a posting of the copy of such notice at a
19 public place within the main Capitol building designated by the
20 Chief Clerk and the Secretary of the Senate.
21 Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, committees may
22 be called into session by an announcement by the Speaker of the
23 House or the presiding officer of the Senate: Provided, That
24 such announcement is made in open session of the House or the
25 Senate.
26 Section 2. Section 7 of the act is amended to read:
27 Section 7. For the purpose of this act, meetings of the
28 Legislature which are covered are as follows: all meetings of
29 committees where bills are considered, all hearings where
30 testimony is taken, all sessions of the House of Representatives
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1 and the Senate. Not included in the intent of this act are party
2 caucuses, nor any meeting of the Ethics Committee of the House
3 of Representatives or the Senate.
4 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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