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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1058

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 855 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY ORIE, RHOADES, PICCOLA, REGOLA, WAUGH, GREENLEAF,
           EARLL, FOLMER, FERLO, D. WHITE, RAFFERTY, PIPPY, McILHINNEY,
           BROWNE, BRUBAKER, VANCE, WASHINGTON, ERICKSON, SCARNATI,
           EICHELBERGER AND WONDERLING, MAY 23, 2007

        REFERRED TO COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
           MAY 23, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, further providing for appointments by the
     3     appointing authority.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 1201(k) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes, amended November 1, 2006 (P.L.1243,
     8  No.135), is amended to read:
     9  § 1201.  Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board established.
    10     * * *
    11     (k)  Appointments.--The appointing authorities shall make
    12  their [initial] appointments within 60 days of [the effective
    13  date of this part.] a vacancy in an office for which such
    14  appointing authority is responsible for making an appointment.
    15  No appointment shall be final until receipt by the appointing
    16  authority of the required background investigation of the
    17  appointee by the Pennsylvania State Police which shall be

     1  completed within 30 days[.], and until the advice and consent of
     2  a majority of the members elected to the Senate has been given.
     3  No person who has been convicted in any domestic or foreign
     4  jurisdiction of a felony, infamous crime or gaming offense shall
     5  be appointed to the board.
     6     * * *
     7     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.
















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