Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

• No statutes or acts will be found at this website.

The Pennsylvania Bulletin website includes the following: Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; State agency notices; the Governor’s Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; and Statewide and local court rules.

PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 16-404

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Recent Actions during the 2016 Regular Session of the General Assembly

[46 Pa.B. 1310]
[Saturday, March 12, 2016]

 The following is a summary of recent actions of the General Assembly during the 2016 Regular Session:

Doc. Date of Bill Printer's Effective Subject Matter
No. Action Number Number Date
2016 General Acts of Regular Session Enacted—Act 001 through 008

001 Feb 3 SB0880 PN1411Immediately Public School Code of 1949—Keystone Exams
002 Feb 5HB1201 PN1576 60 days Authorizing the Department of Highways to take over the highways—repealed
003 Feb 5 SB0494 PN0442 Immediately Flood Insurance Education and Information Act—flood insurance education and information
004 Feb 16 HB0158 PN2721 Immediately* Public School Code of 1949—criminal history of employees and prospective employees; conviction of certain offenses and secretary declaration of emergencies
005 Feb 16 SB0166 PN1517 270 daysCrimes Code (18 Pa.C.S.) and Judicial Code (42 Pa.C.S.)—general regulations, order for limited access and petition for expungement or order for limited access fee
006 Feb 23 HB0561 PN0634 ImmediatelyLocal Tax Enabling Act—definitions
007 Feb 23HB0941PN2662 Immediately Administrative Code of 1929—omnibus amendments
008 Feb 23 SB0479 PN0437 Immediately Edward W. Helfrick Resource Management Center—designation
2016 Joint Resolutions of Regular Session Passed—JR 001

001Jan 27HB0153 PN1318Constitution of Pennsylvania—reducing the size of the General Assembly

 *  denotes an effective date with exceptions

Effective Dates of Statutes

 The effective dates specified above for laws and appropriation acts were contained in the applicable law or appropriation act. Where no date is specified or where the effective date specified is prior to the date of enactment, the effective date is 60 days after final enactment except for statutes making appropriations or affecting budgets of political subdivisions. See 1 Pa.C.S. §§ 1701—1704 (relating to effective dates of statutes).

Advance Copies of Statutes

 Section 1106 of Title 1 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes provides that the prothonotaries of each county shall file advance copies of statutes in their offices for public inspection until the Laws of Pennsylvania are generally available. Section 2406(h) of The Administrative Code of 1929 provides that the Department of General Services shall distribute advance sheets of the Laws of Pennsylvania to each law judge of the courts, to every county and public library of this Commonwealth and to each member of the General Assembly. These copies shall be furnished without charge. The Department shall also mail one copy of each law enacted during any legislative session to any person who pays to it the sum of $25.

 Requests for annual subscriptions for advance copies of statutes should be sent to the State Bookstore, Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Harrisburg, PA 17120, accompanied by a check or money order in the sum of $25, payable to the ''Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.''

VINCENT C. DeLIBERATO, Jr., 
Director
Legislative Reference Bureau

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 16-404. Filed for public inspection March 11, 2016, 9:00 a.m.]



No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit.

This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Bulletin full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.