THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, TARTAGLIONE, FONTANA, KASUNIC, BRUBAKER, GREENLEAF, WAUGH, BREWSTER AND WARD, FEBRUARY 14, 2011

REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, FEBRUARY 14, 2011  

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," further providing for the

Pennsylvania State Police; and repealing an act relating to

limitation on complement of the Pennsylvania State Police.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 205(a), (b), (c) and (g) of the act of

April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative

Code of 1929, amended or added July 25, 1963 (P.L.278, No.148)

and July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12), is amended to read:

Section 205.  Pennsylvania State Police.--(a)  The

Pennsylvania State Police shall consist of a Commissioner, [a

Deputy Commissioner, the State police force, and the State

Highway Patrol] Deputy Commissioners and enlisted members, as

now authorized by law, which are hereby consolidated into one

force, to be known as the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania

State Police, and such chiefs, statisticians, clerks, experts

and other assistants, as the commissioner, with the approval of

the Governor, shall deem necessary for the work of the force.

(b)  The [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State Police shall

consist of such number of officers and [men] enlisted members,

and shall be organized in such manner, as the Commissioner of

Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of the Governor,

shall from time to time determine: Provided, however, That the

number of officers and [men] enlisted members shall not exceed

in the aggregate at any time [three thousand nine hundred and

forty] four thousand three hundred ten persons. State policemen,

both officers and [men] enlisted members, assigned to duty with

the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission [or assigned to duty as

resident State troopers], Delaware River Toll Bridge Commission,

Gaming Enforcement and Liquor Control Enforcement shall not be

counted in determining the total number of officers and [men]

enlisted members in the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State

Police.

(c)  The members of the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania

State Police and the chiefs, statisticians, clerks, experts, and

other assistants, engaged in the work of the Pennsylvania State

Police shall be appointed by the commissioner, and shall receive

such compensation as shall be fixed by the commissioner, with

the approval of the Governor, which compensation shall, however,

conform to the standards established by the Executive Board.

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[(g)  The Pennsylvania State Police force shall include, but

not be limited to, two underwater search teams, one of which

shall be in eastern Pennsylvania and one of which shall be in

western Pennsylvania.]

Section 2.  Repeals are as follows:

(1)  The General Assembly declares that the repeal under

paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the amendment of

section 205 of the act.

(2)  The act of December 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100),

entitled "An act repealing in part a limitation on the

complement of the Pennsylvania State Police," is repealed.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.