PRINTER'S NO. 2359
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1759
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY C. QUINN, DEAN, BERNSTINE, SCHLEGEL CULVER,
GILLESPIE, ENGLISH, KAUFER, MADDEN, GILLEN AND D. MILLER,
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled,
as amended, "An act providing for and reorganizing the
conduct of the executive and administrative work of the
Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the
administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers
thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal
Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating,
reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain
administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining
the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and
administrative officers, and of the several administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the
salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain
other executive and administrative officers; providing for
the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of
all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain
departments, boards, and commissions; providing for the
regulation of pari-mutuel thoroughbred horse racing and
harness horse racing activities, imposing certain taxes and
providing for the disposition of funds from pari-mutuel
tickets; and prescribing the manner in which the number and
compensation of the deputies and all other assistants and
employes of certain departments, boards and commissions shall
be determined," in Commonwealth budget procedures, providing
for general appropriation bill compensation suspension.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
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section to read:
Section 613.1. General Appropriation Bill Compensation
Suspension.--If the General Assembly fails to pass or the
Governor fails to sign a general appropriation bill for a fiscal
year or the Governor fails to sign the final revenue estimate
for a fiscal year, compensation for the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, cabinet officers and members of the General Assembly
shall be suspended until a general appropriation bill has been
passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor or the
final revenue estimate is signed by the Governor.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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