PRINTER'S NO. 1184
No. 1015 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, GEORGE, SURRA, FREEMAN, BIANCUCCI, CARROLL,
DeLUCA, FAIRCHILD, MYERS, SANTONI, SHIMKUS, SIPTROTH AND
WANSACZ, APRIL 3, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
APRIL 3, 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," establishing the Illness
21 Monitoring and Investigation Unit within the Department of
22 Health; and providing for its powers and duties.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
26 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
27 section to read:
1 Section 2126. Illness Monitoring and Investigation Unit.--
2 The Illness Monitoring and Investigation Unit is established as
3 an office within the Department of Health and it shall study
4 health data of the residents of this Commonwealth for high
5 incidences of illness and possible external causes, including,
6 but not limited to, geographic clusters of cancer cases. The
7 office shall work in conjunction with the Department of
8 Environmental Protection and any other appropriate Commonwealth
9 agency to determine whether any measurable external reasons may
10 cause such high incidences of illness.
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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