Bill Text: PA HB747 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Further providing for executive sessions.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 36-11)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB747 Detail]
Download: Pennsylvania-2013-HB747-Introduced.html
| PRINTER'S NO. 849 |
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. | 747 | Session of 2013 |
INTRODUCED BY FEE, DAVIS, MILLER, CUTLER, MAJOR, AUMENT, O'NEILL, ROSS, CALTAGIRONE, MILLARD, SAYLOR, ROZZI, HICKERNELL, MOUL, PASHINSKI, GODSHALL, LUCAS, KAUFFMAN, TALLMAN, HESS, BOBACK, SCHLOSSBERG, FLECK, KORTZ, HENNESSEY, COHEN, MURT, ROCK, D. COSTA, M. K. KELLER, WATSON, GABLER, C. HARRIS, GINGRICH, DENLINGER, CLYMER, MILNE, GILLEN AND GALLOWAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2013
REFERRED TO COMMITEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 14, 2013
AN ACT
1Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania
2Consolidated Statutes, further providing for executive
3sessions.
4The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5hereby enacts as follows:
6Section 1. Section 708(a) of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania
7Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
8§ 708. Executive sessions.
9(a) Purpose.--An agency may hold an executive session for
10one or more of the following reasons:
11* * *
12(7) To review and discuss agency business, the
13disclosure of which, if conducted in public, would:
14(i) be reasonably likely to result in a substantial
15and demonstrable risk of physical harm to or the personal
16security of an individual; or
1(ii) create a reasonable likelihood of endangering
2the safety or the physical security of a building, public
3utility, resource, infrastructure, facility or
4information storage system.
5Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
