PRINTER'S NO. 845
No. 754 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, RHODES, WHITE, BROWN AND LAUGHLIN,
MARCH 28, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 28, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 6, 1941 (P.L.861, No.323), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act to create a uniform and exclusive system
3 for the administration of parole in this Commonwealth;
4 providing state probation services; establishing the
5 'Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole'; conferring and
6 defining its jurisdiction, duties, powers and functions;
7 including the supervision of persons placed upon probation
8 and parole in certain designated cases; providing for the
9 method of appointment of its members; regulating the
10 appointment, removal and discharge of its officers, clerks
11 and employes; dividing the Commonwealth into administrative
12 districts for purposes of probation and parole; fixing the
13 salaries of members of the board and of certain other
14 officers and employes thereof; making violations of certain
15 provisions of this act misdemeanors; providing penalties
16 therefor; and for other cognate purposes, and making an
17 appropriation," changing certain provisions relating to the
18 appointment of a parole officer.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 28, act of August 6, 1941 (P.L.861,
22 No.323), referred to as the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
23 Parole Law, is amended to read:
24 Section 28. The board shall appoint and employ a sufficient
25 number of women as parole officers and supervisors. [to act as
26 such for the women over whom it shall have power and
1 jurisdiction and no person of one sex shall be paroled in charge
2 of a parole officer of the opposite sex.] The appointment of
3 parole officers shall be made on the basis of the ability of the
4 person to handle the job and shall not be made on the basis of
5 sex.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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