PRINTER'S NO. 1145
No. 920 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, FOLMER, BRUBAKER, ORIE, ERICKSON, EARLL,
McILHINNEY AND WONDERLING, JUNE 11, 2007
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 11, 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
21 gubernatorial appointments.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 207.1(d) of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
26 amended by adding a paragraph to read:
27 Section 207.1. Gubernatorial Appointments.--* * *
1 (d) The Governor shall nominate in accordance with the
2 provisions of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
3 Pennsylvania and, by and with the advice and consent of a
4 majority of the members elected to the Senate appoint persons to
5 fill the following positions:
6 * * *
7 (4.1) The chief executive officers of the Pennsylvania
8 Liquor Control Board, the Pennsylvania Higher Education
9 Assistance Agency and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, the
10 director of the Division of the State Lottery within the
11 Department of Revenue and the executive director of the
12 Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.
13 * * *
14 Section 2. This act shall apply to persons appointed on or
15 after the effective date of this section.
16 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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