PRINTER'S NO. 1334
No. 1153 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY GREENWOOD, HALUSKA, TRELLO, HERSHEY, MERRY, BUNT,
JOHNSON, FATTAH, FLICK, CARN AND CIVERA, JUNE 7, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 7, 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," further providing for the
21 establishing and maintenance of industries in the State penal
22 and correctional institutions.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 915(h) of the act of April 9, 1929
26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
27 added July 29, 1953 (P.L.1428, No.164), is amended to read:
1 Section 915. Inmate Labor.--The Bureau of Correction shall
2 have the power and its duty shall be:
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4 (h) To pay out of the Manufacturing Fund and appropriations
5 all expenses necessary for the proper conduct of the work of the
6 Department of Justice pertaining to the establishment,
7 maintenance and carrying on of industries in the State penal and
8 correctional institutions and the rehabilitation of the inmates
9 thereof.
10 Estimates of the amounts to be expended from the
11 Manufacturing Fund shall be submitted to the Governor, from time
12 to time, for his approval or disapproval, as in the case of
13 other appropriations[, and it shall be unlawful for the
14 Department of the Auditor General to honor any requisition for
15 expenditures or moneys out of this appropriation in excess of
16 the estimates approved by the Governor. Subject to this
17 provision, the] . The Department of the Auditor General shall,
18 from time to time, draw warrants upon the Treasury Department
19 for the amounts specified in such requisitions[, not exceeding,
20 however, the amount in the Manufacturing Fund at the time of the
21 making of any such requisitions].
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23 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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