PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 772
No. 728 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY BELAN, STOUT, COSTA, BODACK AND BELL,
MARCH 14, 1997
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 14, 1997
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, providing for the elective office of
3 Insurance Commissioner.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
7 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
8 That section 1 of Article IV be amended and that the article
9 be amended by adding a section to read:
10 § 1. Executive Department.
11 The Executive Department of this Commonwealth shall consist
12 of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Auditor
13 General, State Treasurer, Insurance Commissioner, and
14 Superintendent of Public Instruction and such other officers as
15 the General Assembly may from time to time prescribe.
16 § 4.2. Insurance Commissioner.
17 An Insurance Commissioner shall be chosen by the qualified
1 electors of the Commonwealth on the day the general election is
2 held for the Auditor General, State Treasurer and Attorney
3 General; he shall hold his office during four years from the
4 third Tuesday of January next ensuing his election and shall not
5 be eligible to serve continuously for more than two successive
6 terms; he shall be the chief officer of the Insurance Department
7 and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be
8 imposed by law.
9 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
10 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
11 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
12 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
13 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
14 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
15 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
16 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
17 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
18 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
19 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
20 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
21 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
22 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
23 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
24 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
25 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
26 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
27 primary, general or municipal election occurring at least three
28 months after the proposed constitutional amendment is passed by
29 the General Assembly which meets the requirements of and is in
30 conformance with section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution of
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