PRINTER'S NO. 988
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
977
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY MILLARD, STAMBAUGH, SILVIS, KAUFFMAN, RYAN,
CAUSER, KULIK, KNOWLES, PICKETT, ROTHMAN, LEWIS DELROSSO,
SMITH, POLINCHOCK, HERSHEY, PYLE, STAATS, COX, SAYLOR, MOUL,
KEEFER, HAMM, JONES, MENTZER, ZIMMERMAN, ROWE, WHEELAND AND
DAVANZO, MARCH 19, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, MARCH 19, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in COVID-19 disaster emergency,
providing for certain restrictions prohibited.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 5702. Certain restrictions prohibited.
(a) General rule.--Notwithstanding the provisions of section
7301 (relating to general authority of Governor) or any other
law to the contrary, during the COVID-19 disaster emergency,
neither the Commonwealth nor any municipality may restrict or
impose a limitation through an executive order, proclamation,
regulation, resolution or ordinance or other official action on
the number of individuals who may lawfully gather or assemble in
a restaurant or other eating place in this Commonwealth or the
time periods for the sale or service of alcohol for a licensee
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licensed under the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known
as the Liquor Code.
(b) Nonapplicability.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to
occupancy permits in this Commonwealth or liquor license
restrictions under the Liquor Code or other law issued prior to
March 6, 2020, insofar as the occupancy permits place a maximum
limitation of the number of individuals permitted to occupy a
premises under subsection (a) or a license under the Liquor Code
imposes restrictions on the duration or time of sale of alcohol.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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