H1264B1342A00874 AJB:EJH 05/03/21 #90 A00874
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 1264 (As amended by A00861)
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE MAKO
Printer's No. 1342
Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting between lines 42 and 43
(A00861)
Section 3.1. Personal Protective Equipment Logistics and
Warehousing Advisory Board.
(a) Establishment.--The Personal Protective Equipment
Logistics and Warehousing Advisory Board is established as an
advisory board in the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
The advisory board shall meet within 30 days of the effective
date of this section and every 30 days thereafter until the
expiration of this section.
(b) Membership.--The advisory board shall consist of the
following members:
(1) The Governor or a designee.
(2) The Adjutant General or a designee, who shall serve
as chair of the advisory board.
(3) The Secretary of Health or a designee.
(4) The Secretary of General Services or a designee.
(5) The Director of the Pennsylvania Emergency
Management Agency.
(6) An individual with at least five years experience in
business logistics, warehousing or storage appointed by the
Majority Leader of the Senate.
(7) An individual with at least five years experience in
business logistics, warehousing or storage appointed by the
Minority Leader of the Senate.
(8) An individual with at least five years experience in
business logistics, warehousing or storage appointed by the
Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.
(9) An individual with at least five years experience in
business logistics, warehousing or storage appointed by the
Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.
(c) Duties.--
(1) Within one year of the effective date of this
section, the advisory board shall submit a plan for utilizing
an existing facility or constructing a new facility at Fort
Indiantown Gap for the ongoing storage of personal protective
equipment and other emergency resources needed for the
Commonwealth's response to the COVID-19 pandemic to all of
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the following:
(i) The Governor.
(ii) The President pro tempore of the Senate.
(iii) The Majority Leader of the Senate.
(iv) The Minority Leader of the Senate.
(v) The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(vi) The Majority Leader of the House of
Representatives.
(vii) The Minority Leader of the House of
Representatives.
(2) The plan under paragraph (1) shall:
(i) Outline the size and fit out required for the
facility.
(ii) Take into consideration the long-term usage of
the facility, including the ability of the facility to
respond to future natural disasters or pandemics.
(iii) Provide estimated costs to convert or
construct the facility.
(iv) Recommend Federal resources, State resources or
other resources available to design and construct the
facility.
(v) Provide a cost estimate and a timeline for any
proposed construction.
(vi) Outline anticipated obstacles to the immediate
completion or construction of the facility.
(vii) Highlight the unique capabilities available at
Fort Indiantown Gap to store the emergency management
resources of this Commonwealth.
(d) Expiration.--This section shall expire and the advisory
board shall cease to exist 30 days after submission of the
report issued under subsection (c). The Pennsylvania Emergency
Management Agency shall submit a notice of the expiration of
this section to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication
in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
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