are engaged in life-sustaining work.
(c) Regulations.--The following are prohibited, unless the
action is directly related to responding to the disaster
emergency or adhering to a Federal or State statutory timeline
or court order:
(1) Consideration, adoption or publication within the
Pennsylvania Bulletin of a proposed regulation, a final-form
regulation or a final-omitted regulation subject to the act
of June 25, 1982 (P.L.633, No.181), known as the Regulatory
Review Act.
(2) Conducting a department or agency advisory committee
meeting.
(d) Waiver.--
(1) A Commonwealth agency may petition to the
appropriate standing committees of the Senate and House of
Representatives under section 7(d) of the Regulatory Review
Act for a waiver of the prohibition under subsection (c). The
petition must:
(i) be in writing;
(ii) be signed by the head of the Commonwealth
agency or its governing body;
(iii) state the compelling reason why a waiver
should be granted; and
(iv) be submitted to the chair of each standing
committee for distribution to the respective members of
the committee.
(2) A waiver under paragraph (1) shall be granted upon a
majority vote of each standing committee.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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