PRINTER'S NO. 94
No. 86 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY DALEY, HANNA AND ROBINSON, JANUARY 28, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 28, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, empowering the Governor
3 to authorize the transfer of certain convicted offenders
4 pursuant to outstanding treaties.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Chapter 91 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
9 SUBCHAPTER D
10 EXCHANGE OF OFFENDERS UNDER TREATY
11 Sec.
12 9171. Exchange of offenders under treaty.
13 § 9171. Exchange of offenders under treaty.
14 Whenever a treaty is in force providing for the transfer of
15 convicted offenders between the United States and a foreign
16 country, the Governor or his designee, upon application of the
17 Secretary of Corrections, is authorized to give the approval of
18 the Commonwealth to transfer as provided in the treaty.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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