Bill Information - History

An Act authorizing and directing the Department of Military Affairs, the Department of General Services, the Department of Environmental Resources and the Department of Public Welfare to transfer jurisdiction within the State government of certain tracts of Commonwealth real property acquired under the act of September 29, 1938 (Sp.Sess., P.L.53, No.21), entitled, as reenacted and amended, "An act relating to institutions of counties, cities, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions, for the care, maintenance, and treatment of mental patients; providing for the transfer to the Commonwealth for the care, maintenance and treatment of mental patients of such institutions, and all grounds, lands, buildings and personal property of such political subdivisions used for the care and maintenance of indigent persons connected with such mental institutions; providing for the management and operation or closing and abandonment thereof; and the maintenance of mental patients therein; including the collection of maintenance in certain cases; providing for the retransfer of certain property to counties, cities, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions under certain circumstances; conferring and imposing upon the Governor, the Department of Welfare, the courts of common pleas and counties, cities, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions certain powers and duties; prohibiting cities, counties, wards, boroughs, townships, institution districts and other political subdivisions from maintaining and operating institutions, in whole or in part, for the care and treatment of mental patients; and repealing inconsistent laws," transferring certain parcels of land on former Byberry State Hospital among the Department of Public Welfare, the Department of General Services and the Department of Environmental Resources.