PRINTER'S NO. 182
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
193
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, SCAVELLO, FOLMER, BROOKS, EICHELBERGER,
VULAKOVICH, SCARNATI, RESCHENTHALER, WARD, McGARRIGLE,
RAFFERTY, WHITE, STEFANO AND MARTIN, JANUARY 26, 2017
REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,
JANUARY 26, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Emergency Management
Agency, further providing for organization.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7312(e) of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 7312. Organization.
This agency shall consist of and be organized substantially
as follows:
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(e) State director.--To supervise the work and activities
comprising the State Civil Defense and Disaster Program, the
Governor shall appoint, subject to the consent of a majority of
the members elected to the Senate, an individual to act, on a
full-time basis, as director of the agency. The director shall
perform all such fiscal, planning, administrative, operational
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and other duties as may be assigned to him by the council and
shall act as the chairman's principal assistant in civil defense
and disaster matters. The director or the director's designee is
also the State coordinating officer responsible to coordinate
and supervise the Commonwealth and local disaster response
effort following a presidential declaration of an emergency or a
major disaster.
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Section 2. The amendment of 35 Pa.C.S. § 7312(e) shall apply
to directors of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency who
are appointed after the effective date of this section.
Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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