Bill Text: PA HB753 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further defining "correction officer."

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-05 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB753 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB753-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 838
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 753 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY SAINATO, SOLOBAY, SCAVELLO, SEIP, FABRIZIO, BRENNAN AND SIPTROTH, MARCH 5, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 5, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further defining "correction officer."
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "correction officer" in section
5102 of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is
amended to read:
§ 5102. Definitions.
The following words and phrases as used in this part, unless
a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall
have the following meanings:
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"Correction officer." Any full-time employee assigned to the
Department of Corrections or the Department of Public Welfare
whose principal duty is the care, custody and control of inmates
or direct therapeutic treatment, care, custody and control of
inmates of a penal or correctional institution, community
treatment center, forensic unit in a State hospital or secure
unit of a youth development center operated by the Department of
Corrections or by the Department of Public Welfare and any full-
time employee of the Department of Corrections who is deemed an
essential employee by the Department of Corrections.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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