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Committee approves amendment, advances bill to remove cap on Pennsylvania State Police complement
Summary
House Bill 697, which would remove the statutory cap on the Pennsylvania State Police complement, advanced from committee with a unanimous vote after the committee adopted an amendment deleting a conflicting fiscal-code provision.
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to report House Bill 697, which would remove the statutory cap on the Pennsylvania State Police complement, after adopting a late-filed amendment to resolve a fiscal-code conflict.
Committee counsel said HB 697 amends the administrative code to remove the cap on the State Police complement and that the bill takes effect in 60 days. Chairman Kauffman offered Amendment 99, which counsel described as a necessary deletion in the fiscal code to accomplish the bill’s intent. Committee members described the amendment as a collaborative fix to remove an inserted cap and allow the measure to operate as intended.
A motion to adopt Amendment 99 was made and seconded; the amendment passed with no negative votes recorded and was reflected as unanimous. After the amendment was adopted, members recorded no objections to the bill as amended. The secretary recorded the committee’s support as unanimous and the bill was reported to the speaker as amended.
No fiscal details or numerical staffing levels were provided in the committee discussion recorded in the transcript.
