PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 871
No. 744 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, CALTAGIRONE, GALLOWAY, HARRIS, JOSEPHS,
LEVDANSKY, M. O'BRIEN AND SOLOBAY, MARCH 19, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 19, 2007
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, prohibiting Senators and Representatives
3 from receiving outside earned income.
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 Article II be amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 18. Prohibition on outside earned income.
10 No Senator or Representative shall receive earned income
11 outside of the salary and allowances of his office. The term
12 "earned income" includes wages, salaries, fees and other amounts
13 received as compensation for personal services rendered, but
14 does not include any compensation paid to a Senator or
15 Representative for personal services rendered before the Senator
16 or Representative took office.
17 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
1 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
2 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
3 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
4 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
5 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
6 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
7 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
8 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
9 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
10 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
11 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
12 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
13 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
14 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
15 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
16 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
17 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
18 primary, general or municipal election occurring at least three
19 months after the proposed constitutional amendment is passed by
20 the General Assembly.
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