Bill Text: PA HB785 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for the compensation of members of the General Assembly.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-24 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB785 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB785-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 832
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 785 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY SANTARSIERO, BRADFORD, MATZIE, MURT, K. SMITH, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH AND WAGNER, FEBRUARY 24, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 24, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of September 30, 1983 (P.L.160, No.39),
entitled "An act establishing salaries and compensation of
certain public officials including justices and judges of
Statewide courts, judges of courts of common pleas, judges of
the Philadelphia Municipal Court, judges of the Philadelphia
Traffic Court, district justices and the Governor, the
Lieutenant Governor, the State Treasurer, the Auditor
General, the Attorney General and certain other State
officers and the salary and certain expenses of the members
of the General Assembly; and repealing certain inconsistent
acts," further providing for the compensation of members of
the General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4 of the act of September 30, 1983
(P.L.160, No.39), known as the Public Official Compensation Law,
reenacted and amended November 16, 2005 (P.L.385, No.72), is
amended by adding a subsection to read:
Section 4. Members of the General Assembly.
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(e) Forfeiture of salary during periods of budget impasse
beyond July 1.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this act
or other law to the contrary, during any calendar year in which,
by July 1 of that calendar year, no general appropriation act
has been enacted for the fiscal year beginning July 1 during
that calendar year, the persons identified under subsections (a)
and (b) shall forfeit that portion of their salaries
attributable to the period from July 1 of that calendar year to
the date on which a general appropriation act for that fiscal
year is enacted.
Section 2. This act shall apply to all persons identified
under section 4(a) and (b) of the act who are elected, appointed
or hired to their respective offices or jobs after the effective
date of this section.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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