Bill Text: PA HB1263 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing the Illness Monitoring and Investigation Unit within the Department of Health; and providing for its powers and duties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-15 - Referred to HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES [HB1263 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1263-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1497
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1263 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, GEORGE, STURLA, JOSEPHS, YOUNGBLOOD, K. SMITH, SIPTROTH, SANTONI, MARKOSEK, LONGIETTI, MYERS, M. O'BRIEN, PASHINSKI, HARKINS AND D. COSTA, APRIL 15, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, APRIL 15, 2009
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; 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," establishing the Illness
Monitoring and Investigation Unit within the Department of
Health; and providing for its powers and duties.
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
section to read:
Section 2126. Illness Monitoring and Investigation Unit.--
The Illness Monitoring and Investigation Unit is established as
an office within the Department of Health and it shall study
health data of the residents of this Commonwealth for high
incidences of illness and possible external causes, including,
but not limited to, geographic clusters of cancer cases. The
office shall work in conjunction with the Department of
Environmental Protection and any other appropriate Commonwealth
agency to determine whether any measurable external reasons may
cause such high incidences of illness.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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