PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 1386
No. 9 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY MOWERY, FEBRUARY 9, 2004
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 9, 2004
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, further providing for compensation laws
3 allowed to the General Assembly.
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 18 of Article III be amended to read:
9 § 18. Compensation laws allowed to General Assembly.
10 The General Assembly may enact laws requiring the payment by
11 employers, or employers and employees jointly, of reasonable
12 compensation for injuries to employees arising in the course of
13 their employment, and for occupational diseases of employees,
14 whether or not such injuries or diseases result in death, and
15 regardless of fault of employer or employee, and fixing the
16 basis of ascertainment of such compensation and the maximum and
17 minimum limits thereof, and providing special or general
1 remedies for the collection thereof; but in no other cases shall
2 the General Assembly limit the amount to be recovered for
3 injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to persons or
4 property, and in case of death from such injuries, the right of
5 action shall survive, and the General Assembly shall prescribe
6 for whose benefit such actions shall be prosecuted. No act shall
7 prescribe any limitations of time within which suits may be
8 brought against corporations for injuries to persons or
9 property[,] or for other causes different from those fixed by
10 general laws regulating actions against natural persons[,] and
11 such acts now existing are avoided.
12 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
13 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
14 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
15 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
16 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
17 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
18 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
19 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
20 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
21 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
22 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
23 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
24 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
25 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
26 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
27 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
28 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
29 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
30 primary, general or municipal election which meets the
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1 requirements of and is in conformance with section 1 of Article
2 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and which occurs at least
3 three months after the proposed constitutional amendment is
4 passed by the General Assembly.
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