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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 21-979

THE GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR'S OFFICE

[51 Pa.B. 3437]
[Saturday, June 26, 2021]

Proclamation

Constitutional Amendment; Article IV

 Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 4 of 2020 and Joint Resolution No. 1 of 2021 proposed to amend Article IV of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, relating to disaster emergency declaration and management, by adding a section to read:

§ 20. Disaster emergency declaration and management.

 (a) A disaster emergency declaration may be declared by executive order or proclamation of the Governor upon finding that a disaster has occurred or that the occurrence or threat of a disaster is imminent that threatens the health, safety or welfare of this Commonwealth.

 (b) Each disaster emergency declaration issued by the Governor under subsection (a) shall indicate the nature, each area threatened and the conditions of the disaster, including whether the disaster is a natural disaster, military emergency, public health emergency, technological disaster or other general emergency, as defined by statute. The General Assembly shall, by statute, provide for the manner in which each type of disaster enumerated under this subsection shall be managed.

 (c) A disaster emergency declaration under subsection (a) shall be in effect for no more than twenty-one (21) days, unless otherwise extended in whole or part by concurrent resolution of the General Assembly.

 (d) Upon the expiration of a disaster emergency declaration under subsection (a), the Governor may not issue a new disaster emergency declaration based upon the same or substantially similar facts and circumstances without the passage of a concurrent resolution of the General Assembly expressly approving the new disaster emergency declaration.

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 Whereas, Joint Resolution No. 4 of 2020 was agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and published pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania; and

 Whereas, in the General Assembly next afterwards chosen, the aforesaid amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was proposed in Joint Resolution No. 1 of 2021, which was agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and published pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania; and

 Whereas, the aforesaid proposed amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was submitted for approval to the qualified electors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pursuant to Article XI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania at a primary election held on May 18, 2021; and

 Whereas, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, pursuant to law, has certified to me that the aforesaid proposed amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was approved by a majority of those voting thereon on the aforesaid day; and

 Whereas, Section 903 of Title 1 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes requires the Governor, upon receiving the aforesaid certification of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, to issue his proclamation indicating whether or not the proposed amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of Pennsylvania has been adopted by a majority of the electors voting thereon on May 18, 2021.

 Now Therefore, I, Tom Wolf, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby proclaim that the aforesaid amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of Pennsylvania was adopted by a majority of the electors voting thereon on May 18, 2021.

 Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Commonwealth, at the City of Harrisburg, this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-one and of the Commonwealth the two hundred and forty-fifth.

  

 Governor

 Attest:         

JONATHAN M. MARKS,
 
Deputy Secretary for Elections and Commissions

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 21-979. Filed for public inspection June 25, 2021, 9:00 a.m.]


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