PRINTER'S NO. 396
No. 346 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY SIPTROTH, BAKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BEYER,
BIANCUCCI, BISHOP, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CASORIO, COHEN,
DALEY, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO, GERGELY, GRUCELA, HANNA, HARHAI,
HARRIS, HUTCHINSON, JAMES, W. KELLER, KILLION, KOTIK, KULA,
MAHONEY, MARKOSEK, MARSHALL, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PEIFER,
PETRARCA, PRESTON, PYLE, RAMALEY, REICHLEY, ROSS, SAINATO,
SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, SHIMKUS, SOLOBAY, SONNEY, WALKO, WANSACZ,
WILLIAMS, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK AND COSTA,
FEBRUARY 9, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 9, 2007
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 Pennsylvania State Police; and repealing the act of December
22 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100).
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 205(b) of the act of April 9, 1929
2 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
3 amended July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12), is amended to read:
4 Section 205. Pennsylvania State Police.--* * *
5 (b) The State Police Force shall consist of such number of
6 officers and men, and shall be organized in such manner, as the
7 Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of
8 the Governor, shall from time to time determine.[: Provided,
9 however, That the number of officers and men shall not exceed in
10 the aggregate at any time three thousand nine hundred and forty
11 persons. State policemen, both officers and men, assigned to
12 duty with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission or assigned to
13 duty as resident State troopers, shall not be counted in
14 determining the total number of officers and men in the State
15 Police Force.]
16 * * *
17 Section 2. Repeals are as follows:
18 (1) The General Assembly declares that the repeal under
19 paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the amendment of
20 section 205 of the act.
21 (2) The act of December 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100),
22 entitled "An act repealing in part a limitation on the
23 complement of the Pennsylvania State Police," is repealed.
24 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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