Bill Information

An Act amending Titles 1 (General Provisions) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, responding to and prescribing limitations on decisional law, reaffirming sovereign immunity as provided in section 11 of Article 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, preserving sovereign immunity as a bar to claims brought against Commonwealth agencies and their officials and employees; specifically waiving sovereign immunity as provided by the Constitution in certain limited cases; granting jurisdiction to certain courts over claims brought against Commonwealth agencies; providing for limitations and upon the procedures relating to said claims; authorizing rules and regulations; suspending certain judicial proceedings until July 1, 1979, shortening the statutes of limitations in certain cases; and repealing certain laws.