PRINTER'S NO. 2898
No. 2163 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY GEIST, NOVEMBER 19, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, NOVEMBER 19, 2001
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," providing for an additional
21 deputy secretary in the Department of Transportation.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 2001.3(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
26 amended June 22, 1982 (P.L.573, No.166), is amended and the
27 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
1 Section 2001.3. Deputy Secretaries.--(a) The Secretary of
2 Transportation shall appoint, with the approval of the Governor,
3 [six] seven deputy secretaries who shall have the title of
4 Deputy Secretary for Administration, Deputy Secretary for
5 Highway Administration, Deputy Secretary for Safety
6 Administration, Deputy Secretary for Planning, Deputy Secretary
7 for Local and Area Transportation [and], Deputy Secretary for
8 Aviation and Deputy Secretary for Transportation Security.
9 * * *
10 (h) The Deputy Secretary for Transportation Security, with
11 the approval of the Secretary of Transportation, shall have the
12 power and the duty to establish, implement and administer
13 department internal security, including, but not limited to,
14 computer networks, internal and external security at department
15 facilities and coordination of security matters with all
16 transportation entities located within this Commonwealth,
17 including, but not limited to, airports, trucking terminals,
18 buses, toll roads and bridges, transit agencies, railroads,
19 ships and barge companies.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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