PRINTER'S NO. 770

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 711 Session of 1987


        INTRODUCED BY HUTCHINSON, MARCH 9, 1987

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 9, 1987

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), entitled
     2     "An act relating to Commonwealth documents; providing for the
     3     printing and distribution of administrative regulations;
     4     regulating the adoption, publication, codification and
     5     effectiveness of regulations, statements of policy, and
     6     certain other Commonwealth documents; creating the Joint
     7     Committee on Documents and prescribing its powers and duties;
     8     providing penalties, and making appropriations and repeals,"
     9     eliminating provisions relating to omission of proposed
    10     rulemaking notices; and making an editorial change.

    11     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    12  hereby enacts as follows:
    13     Section 1.  The introductory paragraph of section 201 of the
    14  act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), referred to as the
    15  Commonwealth Documents Law, is amended to read:
    16     Section 201.  Notice of Proposed Rule Making.--[Except as
    17  provided in section 204 an] An agency shall give, in the manner
    18  provided in section 405 (relating to additional contents of
    19  temporary supplements) public notice of its intention to
    20  promulgate, amend or repeal any administrative regulation. Such
    21  notice shall include:


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     2     Section 2.  Section 204 of the act is repealed.
     3     Section 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.


















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