Recent Actions During the 1998 Regular Session of the General Assembly [28 Pa.B. 1749] The following is a summary of recent actions of the General Assembly during the 1998 Regular Session.
1998 ACTS--Acts 34 through 40 (numerical) Act Enactment Bill Printer's Effective Subject No. Date No. No. Date Matter 1998-34 Mar. 20 SB492 PN1507 60 days Commercial Real Estate Broker Lien Act --enactment 1998-35 Mar. 24 SB769 PN825 Immediately Expedited Eviction of Drug Traffickers Act--name change and definition of court 1998-36 Mar. 24 SB1087 PN1657 Immediately* Domestic Relations Code (23 Pa.C.S.) --alimony, alimony pendente lite and contempt for violation of protection order or agreement 1998-37 Mar. 24 SB1175 PN1638 60 days Real and Personal Property (68 Pa.C.S.) --planned communities 1998-38 Mar. 24 HB1189 PN3035 60 days Crimes Code (18 Pa.C.S)--invasion of privacy; penalty 1998-39 Mar. 24 HB1573 PN2659 Immediately Agriculture Code (3 Pa.C.S.)--omnibus amendments 1998-40 Mar. 24 HB1757 PN2830 60 days Crimes Code (18 Pa.C.S)--solicitation of minors to traffic drugs * 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 of 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''.
Legislative Bills and Documents Copies of Senate Bills and Documents may be obtained from: Document Room, Senate of Pennsylvania, Room 34A, Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 787-6732.
Copies of House Bills and Documents may be obtained from: Document Room, House of Representatives, 35 Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 787-5320.
CARL MEASE,
Director
Legislative Reference Bureau[Pa.B. Doc. No. 98-557. Filed for public inspection April 10, 1998, 9:00 a.m.]
