PRINTER'S NO. 441
No. 23 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY SALOOM, MANDERINO, IRVIS, PETRARCA, OLASZ, FEE,
GEORGE, STUBAN, DOMBROWSKI, VEON, YANDRISEVITS, BORTNER,
McCALL, PIEVSKY, D. R. WRIGHT, GALLAGHER, PRATT, LIVENGOOD,
SHOWERS, DeWEESE, RUDY, COHEN, DALEY, KASUNIC, BLAUM,
CAPPABIANCA, TIGUE, ACOSTA, HALUSKA, PRESSMANN, HARPER,
LLOYD, BALDWIN, MORRIS, RICHARDSON, OLIVER, LINTON, MRKONIC,
BELFANTI, LETTERMAN, BOWLEY, CLARK, O'DONNELL, SEVENTY,
DeLUCA, TRELLO, GAMBLE, VAN HORNE, JAROLIN, BROUJOS,
CALTAGIRONE, BATTISTO, LUCYK, ITKIN, EVANS, WAMBACH, TRUMAN,
RIEGER, DONATUCCI, JOSEPHS, KOSINSKI, McHALE AND FREEMAN,
FEBRUARY 12, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, FEBRUARY 13, 1985
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Expressing the intent of the General Assembly relative to the
2 resolution procedure used to extend the life of certain
3 agencies subject to the Sunset Act.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 WHEREAS, The General Assembly passed and the Governor signed
7 Senate Bill No. 108 of 1981 as the act of December 22, 1981
8 (P.L.508, No.142), known as the Sunset Act, which provides a
9 procedure for the review of various State agencies according to
10 certain time schedules; and
11 WHEREAS, Section 7 of the Sunset Act provides two methods for
12 extending or continuing the agencies by means of legislation or
13 resolution; and
14 WHEREAS, The resolution provisions of section 7 provides for
1 the utilization of this procedure only after November 1 of each
2 review year, thus permitting the General Assembly to retain
3 agencies where little or no time remains for a thorough review;
4 therefore be it
5 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
6 express its intent that the resolution procedure utilized in
7 section 7 of the Sunset Act was and is strictly an informal
8 procedural device, not legislative in character, to continue
9 agencies subject to termination; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That as an informal procedural device, not
11 legislative in character, the resolution in section 7 is not and
12 was not intended to be subject to the review or approval of the
13 Governor; and be it further
14 RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the House of
15 Representatives transmit this resolution, after approval, to the
16 Governor and the Attorney General.
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