Bill Text: PA HB41 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibiting the furlough of Commonwealth employees.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 47-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-26 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB41 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB41-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 33
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 41 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PERRY, ADOLPH, ARGALL, BAKER, BARRAR, BENNINGHOFF, BEYER, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, ELLIS, EVERETT, FLECK, GABLER, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HARHART, HESS, HICKERNELL, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, M. KELLER, MARSICO, MILLARD, MILLER, MOUL, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PYLE, RAPP, REED, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STERN, TRUE, VULAKOVICH, WALKO, WATSON, HORNAMAN, PICKETT, PEIFER, CLYMER AND MURT, JANUARY 26, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 26, 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," prohibiting the furlough of
Commonwealth employees.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 223 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
Section 223. Payday.--* * *
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a general
appropriation act for a fiscal year is not enacted before the
beginning of that fiscal year, all employes of the Commonwealth
shall be considered to be critical and essential employes and
may not be furloughed because of the failure to enact a general
appropriation act for a fiscal year. No employes of the
Commonwealth shall be furloughed based on any categorization or
distinction not expressly provided for in law.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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