HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 173 PRINTER'S NO. 1499
No. 179 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA, LOEPER, GERLACH, LEMMOND, HART,
TOMLINSON, WAGNER, COSTA, CONTI, HOLL, KITCHEN, BELAN, MUSTO,
THOMPSON, SLOCUM, ROBBINS, SALVATORE, MELLOW, KASUNIC, DENT,
WENGER, MURPHY, O'PAKE, CORMAN, WAUGH AND SCHWARTZ,
JANUARY 20, 1999
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
NOVEMBER 15, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of November 22, 1978 (P.L.1166, No.274),
2 entitled "An act establishing the Pennsylvania Commission on
3 Crime and Delinquency, providing for its powers and duties
4 establishing several advisory committees within the
5 commission and providing for their powers and duties,"
6 further providing for composition of the commission AND FOR <--
7 THE UPDATING OF THE COMMISSION'S COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE
8 JUSTICE PLAN.
9 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11 Section 1. Section 2(b) SECTIONS 2(B) AND 3(1) of the act of <--
12 November 22, 1978 (P.L.1166, No.274), referred to as the
13 Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency Law, amended
14 April 30, 1986 (P.L.125, No.38), is ARE amended to read: <--
15 Section 2. Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
16 * * *
17 (b) Composition.--The commission shall consist of the
18 following members:
1 (1) The Attorney General.
2 (2) The Chief Justice of Pennsylvania.
3 (3) The Court Administrator of Pennsylvania.
4 (4) A judge of a court of common pleas.
5 (5) Commissioner of State Police.
6 (6) The chairmen of the House and Senate Majority
7 Appropriations Committees.
8 (7) The chairman of the Juvenile Advisory Committee.
9 (8) Four members of the General Assembly, of whom one
10 shall be designated by, and serve at the pleasure of the
11 President pro tempore of the Senate, one by the Minority
12 Leader of the Senate, one by the Speaker of the House of
13 Representatives and one by the Minority Leader of the House
14 of Representatives.
15 (9) Four members appointed by the Governor, one
16 representative of local law enforcement agencies, one
17 representative of adult correctional rehabilitative agencies,
18 one representative of local elected officials and one
19 district attorney representative.
20 (10) Seven private citizens appointed by the Governor,
21 at least two of which serve on the Juvenile Advisory
22 Committee.
23 (11) Secretary of Corrections.
24 (12) The Victim Advocate.
25 [(12)] (13) Such additional members appointed by the
26 Governor as are necessary to implement programs authorized by
27 State and Federal law.
28 * * *
29 SECTION 3. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION. <--
30 THE COMMISSION SHALL HAVE THE POWER AND ITS DUTY SHALL BE:
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1 (1) TO PREPARE AND [PERIODICALLY] AT LEAST ONCE EVERY
2 TWO YEARS UPDATE A COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE JUSTICE PLAN ON
3 BEHALF OF THE COMMONWEALTH BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF THE
4 COMMONWEALTH'S NEEDS AND PROBLEMS, INCLUDING JUVENILE
5 DELINQUENCY PREVENTION.
6 * * *
7 Section 2 3. This act shall take effect immediately. <--
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