PRINTER'S NO. 22
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
46
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY K. WARD, LANGERHOLC, STEFANO, BREWSTER, COSTA AND
WHITE, JANUARY 11, 2019
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, JANUARY 11, 2019
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 judicial
administration; 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 powers and duties of the
Governor and other constitutional officers, of the Executive
Board and of the Pennsylvania State Police, providing for the
State trooper services contractual program.
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
section to read:
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Section 714. State Trooper Services Contractual Program.--
(a) A municipality or adjacent municipalities may enter into an
agreement with the Pennsylvania State Police for State trooper
service. The municipality or municipalities must agree to pay
for the State trooper service.
(b) In order to implement this section, the Commissioner of
Pennsylvania State Police may enter into agreements with
boroughs and townships for the furnishing of police protection
by one or more State troopers on a contractual basis at agreed
upon hours and locations. The contract price for the services
shall include only the labor and benefit costs of providing
police protection, however may not be less than sixty-five
dollars ($65) per hour per trooper. Money paid for the police
services shall be credited to a restricted account and used for
the express purpose of financing the services for which the
contract price was paid. For every two thousand hours annually
contracted one full-time trooper would not be counted in
determining the total number of officers and enlisted members in
the Pennsylvania State Police.
(c) The Pennsylvania State Police shall promulgate rules and
regulations as may be necessary to implement this program and
the contractual agreements authorized by this section. The rules
and regulations shall:
(1) Require that as a prerequisite to contracting for the
services of a State trooper, a municipality or municipalities
shall adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing the
contractual arrangement with the Pennsylvania State Police for
the payment by the municipality or municipalities of the costs
set pursuant to this section incurred in connection with the
provision of these services.
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(2) Require State troopers to remain under the direct
control of the Pennsylvania State Police with supervision to be
provided by the commanding officer of the field installation
having jurisdiction over the municipality or municipalities
contracting for the State trooper services.
(3) Require that all organizational orders, regulations and
directives by the Pennsylvania State Police apply with full
force to the assigned State troopers.
(4) Require that the commander of the field installation
shall not remove a State trooper assigned pursuant to this
contractual program from his area of jurisdiction during
assigned hours except in cases of emergency. If a State trooper
is removed, the governing body of the contracting municipality
or municipalities shall be notified.
(5) Require State troopers to enforce 75 Pa.C.S. (relating
to vehicles), criminal laws of this Commonwealth and local
ordinances relating to public safety pursuant to the agreement
with the municipality or municipalities.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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