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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 05-1375

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Recent Actions during the 2005 Regular Session of the General Assembly

[35 Pa.B. 4084]

   The following is a summary of recent actions of the General Assembly during the 2005 Regular Session.

Doc. Date of Bill Printer's Effective Subject Matter
No. Action Number Number Date
2005 GENERAL ACTS ENACTED--ACT 010 through 037
010 Jul 5 HB0129 PN2435 90 days Transportation Code (74 Pa.C.S.)--flying while impaired and imposing penalties
011 Jul 5HB0136PN2243 60 daysSecond Class Township Code--appropriations to watershed associations
012 Jul 5 HB0157 PN2428 Immediately* County Code--omnibus amendments and repealing Hotel Room Rental Tax Act
013 Jul 5 HB0266 PN2244 60 days Borough Code--specific powers of borough
014 Jul 5 HB0267 PN2245 60 daysFirst Class Township Code--specific powers
015 Jul 5 HB0271 PN1616 Immediately Project 70 lands--North Newton Township, Cumberland County, and West Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County
016 Jul 5 HB0279PN2430 60 days Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law--administrative expenses
017 Jul 5 HB0398 PN0386 Immediately Legislative Data Processing Committee--further providing for establishment
018 Jul 5 HB0399 PN0610 60 days Names (54 Pa.C.S.)--divorcing and divorced person and surviving spouse to resume prior name
019 Jul 5HB0887 PN2362 Immediately Game Code (34 Pa.C.S.)--resident license and fee exemptions and license costs and fees
020 Jul 5 HB1076 PN2363 Immediately Game Code (34 Pa.C.S.)--resident license and fee exemptions and license costs and fees
021 Jul 5 HB1077PN2364 Immediately Fish and Boat Code (30 Pa.C.S.)--license fee for deployed Pennsylvania National Guard members and for reserve component of armed forces members
022 Jul 5 HB1589PN2493ImmediatelyMedicare Hospital Service Payment Designation Act--designation of hospitals
023 Jul 5HB1745 PN2492Immediately Conveyance--Commonwealth property in Hartley Township, Union County and Borough of Danville, Montour County
024 Jul 5 SB0126 PN010960 daysRepresentative Leroy M. Zimmerman Memorial Bridge--designation
025 Jul 5 SB0141PN0128 60 days L. Charles Scipione Bridge--designation
026 Jul 5SB0158 PN0704 60 days State highway system--adding portion of Bayfront Parkway, City of Erie, Erie County, to Commonwealth and transferring certain State road to City of Erie
027 Jul 5 SB0248PN0705 60 daysExtending date for validation of certain conveyances and other instruments
028 Jul 5 SB0457 PN0900 60 daysThird Class City Code--beneficiaries of fund not to be employed by city and beneficiaries serving in elective office
029 Jul 5 SB0511 PN1053 ImmediatelyJob Enhancement Act--Family Savings Account Program definitions and administration, technology work experience definitions, approved courses, emerging technology companies, responsibility of approved educational institutions and eligible interns
030 Jul 5 SB0584PN1029 60 days Crimes Code (18 Pa.C.S.)--defining offense of disarming law enforcement officer
031 Jul 5SB0600PN1052ImmediatelyProject 70 lands--release of restrictions on land owned by Indiana County, imposition of restrictions on land being conveyed to county by Department of Transportation
032 Jul 5 SB0677 PN0815 60 daysSenator Clarence D. Bell Memorial Highway--designation
033 Jul 5 SB0688PN0969 ImmediatelyConveyance--Commonwealth property in City of Erie, County of Erie, to Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority
034 Jul 5 SB0697 PN1060 ImmediatelyConveyance--Commonwealth lands in Morgan and Franklin Townships, Greene County, and Danville, Montour County, and leasing land within bed of Delaware River
035 Jul 5 SB0721 PN0865 60 days Transportation Code (74 Pa.C.S.)--designating State Route 6 in Wyoming County and State Route 92 in Susquehanna County as scenic byways
036 Jul 5 SB0722 PN1051Immediately Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act--omnibus amendments
037 Jul 5 SB0724 PN0868 Immediately*Vehicle Code (75 Pa.C.S.)--implementing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999

   *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 $20.

   Requests for annual subscriptions for advance copies of statutes should be sent to the State Bookstore, PHMC, Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0053, accompanied by a check or money order in the sum of $20, payable to the ''Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.''

ROBERT W. ZECH, Jr.,   
Director
Legislative Reference Bureau

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 05-1375. Filed for public inspection July 22, 2005, 9:00 a.m.]



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