PRINTER'S NO. 21
No. 30 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY WAGNER, STOUT, LOGAN, COSTA, KITCHEN AND MUSTO,
JANUARY 13, 2005
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, JANUARY 13, 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 the
21 powers and duties of the Pennsylvania State Police.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 710 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
25 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by
26 adding a subsection to read:
27 Section 710. Pennsylvania State Police.--The Pennsylvania
1 State Police shall have the power and its duty shall be:
2 * * *
3 (j) To collect information from all local law enforcement
4 agencies relating to crimes and incidents related to domestic
5 violence which involve allegations of abuse involving family or
6 household members, sexual or intimate partners or persons who
7 share biological parenthood as those terms are defined in 23
8 Pa.C.S. § 6102 (relating to definitions). Any information,
9 records and statistics collected in accordance with this
10 subsection shall be available for use by any agency required to
11 furnish information, to the extent that such information is
12 reasonably necessary or useful to such agency in carrying out
13 the duties imposed on it by law. The Commissioner of the
14 Pennsylvania State Police may, by regulation, establish such
15 conditions for the use or availability of such information as
16 may be necessary to its preservation, the protection of
17 confidential information, or the circumstances of a pending
18 prosecution.
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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