PRINTER'S NO. 580
No. 519 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY PUNT, NAHILL, BURD, COSLETT, HASAY, CESSAR, NOYE,
CLYMER, DeVERTER, BOOK, MANMILLER, SPITZ, PERZEL, BUNT,
WILSON, PHILLIPS, E. Z. TAYLOR, MERRY, B. SMITH, FARGO, WASS,
MACKOWSKI, MARMION, J. L. WRIGHT, CARN, BATTISTO, HERMAN,
JAROLIN, DORR, MOWERY, LASHINGER AND KENNEDY, MARCH 21, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 21, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," providing for the
21 appointment of certain unemployed persons to fill vacant
22 State job positions.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
26 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
1 section to read:
2 Section 224. Employment Priorities.--(a) When the
3 unemployment rate in a county is ten per centum (10%) or more,
4 the Commonwealth shall fill vacant State job positions in that
5 county (i) whose unemployment benefits have exhausted, (ii) with
6 qualified persons who are receiving or are entitled to receive
7 unemployment compensation benefits, or (iii) if there are no
8 such persons, with qualified persons who are receiving or are
9 entitled to receive public assistance benefits.
10 (b) Nothing in this section shall affect any Civil Service
11 position nor shall it affect any veterans' preference law.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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