several additional years to remedy, prevents the
amendment from being presented to the electors on May 18,
2021, and is an act beyond the control of the General
Assembly and of the citizens and, therefore, constitutes
an emergency.
(2) The General Assembly hereby determines that the
deprivation of the rights granted to the People of this
Commonwealth to vote on an amendment to Pennsylvania's
chartering document by an unelected bureaucrat constitutes a
major emergency that threatens or is about to threaten this
Commonwealth and the safety or welfare of this Commonwealth
and therefore requires prompt amendment of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania by this constitutional amendment.
Section 2. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 11 of Article I be amended to read:
ยง 11. Courts to be open; suits against the Commonwealth.
(a) All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury
done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have
remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered
without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the
Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and in such cases as
the Legislature may by law direct.
(b) An individual for whom a statutory limitations period
has already expired, or whose claim would otherwise be barred or
limited by a statutory cap on damages, sovereign immunity or by
governmental or official immunity, shall have a period of two
years, without bar or limitation by such caps or immunities,
from the time that this subsection becomes effective to commence
an action arising from childhood sexual abuse, in such cases as
provided by law at the time that this subsection becomes
effective.
Section 3. Upon passage by the General Assembly of this
proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
advertising requirements of section 1(a) of Article XI of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
primary, general or municipal election which meets the
requirements of and is in conformance with section 1(a) of
Article XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
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