PRINTER'S NO. 1530
No. 1286 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY McCALL, GEIST, BELFANTI, BOYD, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO,
GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HALUSKA, JAMES, W. KELLER, PISTELLA,
READSHAW, SANTONI, SHANER, TIGUE AND WALKO, APRIL 6, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 6, 2005
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," further providing for
21 deputy secretaries.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 2001.3 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 to read:
27 Section 2001.3. Deputy Secretaries.--(a) The Secretary of
1 Transportation shall appoint, with the approval of the Governor,
2 six deputy secretaries who shall have the title of Deputy
3 Secretary for Administration, Deputy Secretary for Highway
4 Administration, Deputy Secretary for [Safety Administration]
5 Driver and Vehicle Services, Deputy Secretary for Planning,
6 Deputy Secretary for Local and Area Transportation and Deputy
7 Secretary for Aviation, Rail Freight, Ports and Waterways.
8 (b) The Deputy Secretary for Administration, with the
9 approval of the Secretary of Transportation, shall have the
10 powers and perform the duties and functions under this act
11 regarding the fiscal affairs of the department, the management
12 information systems, office services, personnel, and operations
13 analysis and improvement.
14 (c) The Deputy Secretary for Highway Administration, with
15 the approval of the Secretary of Transportation shall have the
16 powers and perform the functions and duties provided in sections
17 2002 through 2009 of this act regarding the design,
18 construction, maintenance and land acquisition of State
19 designated highways and shall assure that the design,
20 maintenance, operation and replacement of highways will be such
21 as to protect health and minimize danger to life or property[.]
22 and shall conduct a continuing study of means to prevent
23 accidents and injuries on highways.
24 (d) The Deputy Secretary for [Safety Administration] Driver
25 and Vehicle Services, with the approval of the Secretary of
26 Transportation [shall conduct a continuing study of means to
27 prevent accidents and injuries on the highways], shall have the
28 powers and perform the duties and functions [heretofore imposed
29 upon and] performed by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles [in the
30 Department of Revenue] and the Bureau of [Traffic Safety in the
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1 Department of Revenue and shall exercise such powers and duties
2 with regard to safety in other modes of transportation as may be
3 prescribed by law.] Driver Licensing.
4 (e) The Deputy Secretary for Planning, with the approval of
5 the Secretary of Transportation shall have the powers and
6 perform the functions and duties provided in this act with
7 regard to environment, conservation, health, recreation and
8 social considerations, transportation planning statistics,
9 economic research, program and budget and advance planning.
10 (f) The Deputy Secretary for Local and Area Transportation,
11 with the approval of the Secretary of Transportation shall have
12 the powers and perform the functions and duties provided in
13 sections 2002 and 2003 regarding services to municipalities,
14 local and public transportation, planning, development and
15 funding of local and public transportation, technological
16 development of rail, water or other modes of transportation
17 (except recreational boating and ferry licensing), environmental
18 design, improvement of transportation services and shall perform
19 the functions and duties heretofore imposed upon and performed
20 by the Mass Transportation Division in the Bureau of Community
21 Development of the Department of Community Affairs, by the
22 Secretary of Community Affairs under the act of January 22, 1968
23 (P.L.42, Act No.8), known as the "Pennsylvania Urban Mass
24 Transportation Law," by the Department of Commerce in regard to
25 High-Speed Rail Demonstration Programs and by the former
26 Department of Highways in regard to the distribution of liquid
27 fuels taxes to the municipalities and townships.
28 (g) The Deputy Secretary for Aviation, Rail Freight, Ports
29 and Waterways, with the approval of the Secretary of
30 Transportation, shall have the powers and perform the functions
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1 and duties as provided by law relating to the department's
2 responsibilities for aviation, airports [and], air safety, rail
3 freight, rail safety and ports and waterways within the
4 Commonwealth.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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