Bill Text: PA HB1862 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for an Executive Director of Green Jobs Analysis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-07-16 - Referred to LABOR RELATIONS [HB1862 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1862-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2463
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1862 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PAYTON, BRIGGS, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, HARKINS, HENNESSEY, JOHNSON, JOSEPHS, KIRKLAND, MAHONEY, McGEEHAN, M. O'BRIEN, PARKER, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, STURLA, THOMAS, WAGNER, WHEATLEY, WHITE, YOUNGBLOOD AND MYERS, JULY 16, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, JULY 16, 2009
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," providing for an Executive
Director of Green Jobs Analysis.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 2204.1. Executive Director of Green Jobs Analysis.--
(a) The Secretary of Labor and Industry shall appoint an
Executive Director of Green Jobs Analysis to work within the
Center for Workforce Information and Analysis.
(b) The executive director shall have the following duties:
(1) To create and monitor an index of green jobs in this
Commonwealth.
(2) To coordinate with the Green Economy Center on
monitoring green jobs.
(c) The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of
the Secretary of Labor and Industry.
(d) As used in this section, the term "green job" means a
job related to the creation of manufactured products and
services, which use renewable energy resources, reduce
pollution, conserve energy and natural resources and
reconstitute waste.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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