PRINTER'S NO. 1680
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1547
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY KEEFER, GROVE, STAMBAUGH, MOUL, JAMES, COX, HAMM,
KAUFFMAN, RYAN, MILLARD, ROWE, EMRICK, SCHEMEL, R. MACKENZIE,
KLUNK, GILLESPIE, HERSHEY, RAPP AND BERNSTINE, JUNE 7, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, JUNE 7, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
Executive Department thereof and the administrative
departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
officers, and of the several administrative departments,
boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
and commissions; providing for judicial administration; and
prescribing the manner in which the number and compensation
of the deputies and all other assistants and employes of
certain departments, boards and commissions shall be
determined," in powers and duties of the Department of Health
and its departmental administrative and advisory boards,
providing for disaster emergencies.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
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section to read:
Section 2106.1. Disaster Emergencies.--If a declaration of a
disaster emergency under 35 Pa.C.S. ยง 7301(b) (relating to
general authority of Governor) requires the Governor to order
the closure of non-life-sustaining businesses in this
Commonwealth, the Department of Health, in conjunction with the
Governor, shall utilize the Essential Critical Infrastructure
Workforce advisory list developed by the Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency of the United States Department
of Homeland Security in determining whether a business is life-
sustaining. All businesses shall be provided with the ability to
continue operations in some manner or form. This section shall
apply during the continuance of a state of disaster emergency
declared before, on or after the effective date of this section.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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