PRINTER'S NO. 3208
No. 2318 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY G. WRIGHT, BELFANTI, CAPPELLI, CREIGHTON, DALEY,
J. EVANS, GEIST, GEORGE, HARHAI, LAUGHLIN, LESCOVITZ,
ROBINSON, SCRIMENTI, SHANER AND SURRA, JANUARY 30, 2002
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, JANUARY 30, 2002
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 a Bureau of
21 Counterterrorism.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
25 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
26 section to read:
1 Section 714. Bureau of Counterterrorism.--(a) The
2 Pennsylvania State Police shall establish a Bureau of
3 Counterterrorism under the direction of a director appointed by
4 the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police.
5 (b) The Bureau of Counterterrorism shall have the power and
6 its duties shall be:
7 (1) To investigate incidents of cyber-terrorism,
8 counterterrorism and hate crimes, both domestic and
9 international.
10 (2) To monitor activities of terrorist organizations and
11 hate groups across this Commonwealth.
12 (3) To conduct such other related activities as shall be
13 determined by the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police.
14 (4) To annually transmit to the Governor and the General
15 Assembly an annual report on the activities of the Bureau of
16 Counterterrorism.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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