2120 Recent actions during the 2000 regular session of the General Assembly  

  • Recent Actions during the 2000 Regular Session of the General Assembly

    [30 Pa.B. 6325]

       The following is a summary of recent actions of the General Assembly during the 2000 Regular Session.

    2000 ACTS--ACTS 87 through 93
    (numerical)

    ActEnactmentBillPrinter'sEffectiveSubject
    No.DateNumberNumberDateMatter
    2000-87Nov. 22HB165PN153ImmediatelyRepeals obsolete law pertaining to second and fourth class county fire training schools for municipal paid and volunteer fireman
    2000-88Nov. 22HB1443PN412060 daysReal and Personal Property (68 Pa.C.S.)-- public lands
    2000-89Nov. 22HB2533PN4073ImmediatelyBanking Code of 1965--omnibus amendments
    2000-90Nov. 22HB2139PN3974ImmediatelyMilitary and Veterans Code (51 Pa.C.S.)-- State Veterans Commission and military leaves of absence
    2000-91Nov. 22SB1403PN2335Immediately*Public School Code of 1949--omnibus amendments
    2000-92Nov. 22HB1523PN346060 daysNames (54 Pa.C.S.)--resumption of surname for party in divorce action
    2000-93Nov. 22HB1416PN165960 daysJudicial Code (42 Pa.C.S.)--school officers civil immunity relating to emergency care, first aid and rescue

    2000 JOINT RESOLUTIONS--JR 1
    (numerical)

    JRFilingBillPrinter'sPriorSubject
    No.DateNumberNumberPassageMatter
    2000-JR1Nov. 22SB231PN2191JR1998-3Legislative reapportionment and judicial retirement--Legislative Reapportionment Commission organization and functions and judges and district justices retirement

    * 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, State Records Center Building, 1825 Stanley Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17103, accompanied by a check or money order in the sum of $20, payable to the ''Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.''

    CARL L. MEASE,   
    Director
    Legislative Reference Bureau

    [Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-2120. Filed for public inspection December 8, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]

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