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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2019 - 2020
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 16, 2019 10:57 AM |
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| From: | Representative Jason Ortitay and Rep. William C. Kortz, II |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Branch Campuses for Training Schools |
| In the near future, we will be introducing legislation to amend Act 174 of 1986, the Private Licensed Schools Act. The purpose of this legislation is to ensure that quality training opportunities can be expanded throughout Pennsylvania. Currently, under the act, branch campuses of Private Licensed Schools must be located within the same County as the primary site. This limits quality programs and schools to operations in only one County, and prevents the expansion of valuable training opportunities, unless the School succeeds in the costly and time-consuming process of securing an independent license for the second, out-of-county location. Further, it would allow for the creation of appropriately-sized campuses in Counties that might not support an independent school Our legislation would eliminate the County limitation and allow these schools to create Branch Campuses in Counties outside the County that houses the primary site. Making this change would allow the many fine training programs in our Commonwealth to grow and offer additional opportunities to students throughout Pennsylvania. We believe that this would be a great asset to our growing industries and ensure that we have the well-trained workforce necessary in the modern economy. Please join us in co-sponsoring this important legislation. |
Introduced as HB518