Regular Session 2021-2022 House Bill 1861 P.N. 2107

PRINTER'S NO. 2107

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1861

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY LEWIS, LEWIS DELROSSO AND ROWE, SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 14, 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 temporary regulatory flexibility authority,

further providing for definitions and for temporary

regulatory flexibility authority.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The definition of "order" in section 2101-F of

the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The

Administrative Code of 1929, added June 11, 2021 (P.L.56,

No.21), is amended to read:

Section 2101-F. Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this article

shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the

context clearly indicates otherwise:

* * *

["Order."] "COVID-19 declaration of disaster emergency." Any

of the following:

(1) the declaration of disaster emergency issued by the

Governor on March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B. 1644 (March

21, 2020); or

(2) a declaration of disaster emergency relating to

COVID-19 which is issued after March 6, 2020.

Section 2. Section 2102-F(a) and (b) of the act, added June

11, 2021 (P.L.56, No.21), are amended and the section is amended

by adding a subsection to read:

Section 2102-F. Temporary regulatory flexibility authority.

(a) Extension.--The suspension of a regulatory statute

prescribing the procedures for conduct of Commonwealth business,

or an order, rule or regulation of a Commonwealth agency which

was suspended under 35 Pa.C.S. § 7301(f)(1) (relating to general

authority of Governor) as of the last day that the [order]

COVID-19 declaration of disaster emergency, as amended and

renewed, was in effect is extended until September 30, 2021,

unless sooner terminated by the authority which initially

authorized the suspension.

(b) Applicability.--A suspension which is extended under

subsection (a) shall be retroactive to the last day that the

[order] COVID-19 declaration of disaster emergency, as amended

and renewed, was in effect.

* * *

20210HB1861PN2107 - 2 -

(d) Final report.--No later than November 1, 2021, each

authority which initially authorized a suspension which was

extended under subsection (a) shall issue a final report. A

final report under this subsection shall include all of the

following:

(1) A list of each suspension which was extended under

subsection (a). The list under this paragraph shall include a

reference to the statute, order, rule or regulation which was

suspended.

(2) For each suspension under paragraph (1) which was

terminated under subsection (a), the date that the suspension

was terminated.

Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

20210HB1861PN2107 - 3 -