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  Encyclopedia: Pennsylvania General Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the U.S. state of Pennsylvania's legislative branch, seated at the state's capital, Harrisburg.
The General Assembly meets at noon on the first Tuesday of January and then regularly throughout the year.
The Pennsylvania general elections are held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every even-numbered year.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pennsylvania-General-Assembly   (1307 words)

  
 General assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, representing Unitarian churches in the United Kingdom.
The general assembly or landsgemeinde of all citizens used as an institution of direct democracy in some Swiss cantons.
Generally, an official session of the members, or representative members, of a union, church, association, or similar organization.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Assembly   (173 words)

  
 Pennsylvania -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pennsylvania Germans, including the (An American follower of the Mennonite religion) Amish and the (A member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life) Mennonites, dominate the area around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg, with smaller numbers extending northeast to the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area and up the Susquehanna River valley.
Pennsylvania and Delaware were two of the (additional info and facts about thirteen colonies) thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolution of 1776.
Pennsylvania's entire judicial system is under the supervision of the (additional info and facts about Supreme Court of Pennsylvania) Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which is also the final appellate court for both the Superior Court and the Commonwealth Court.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pennsylvania.htm   (4799 words)

  
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General assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania joint state government commission.
TITLE Pennsylvania at Chickamauga and Chattanooga : Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battles / [Chickamauga-Chattanooga Battlefield Commission] IMPRINT [Harrisburg, Pa.] : W. Ray, state printer, 1900.
TITLE Second brigade of the Pennsylvania reserves at Antietam : report of the Antietam Battlefield Memorial Commission of Pennsylvania and ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the position of four regiments of the Pennsylvania reserves engaged in the battle.
www.colorado.edu /libraries/govpubs/lsca/states/pennsylvania.htm   (2258 words)

  
 Testimony of Irwin A. Popowsky - August 19, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The generation of electricity is not a natural monopoly, yet we have continued to regulate it as though it were a necessary part of the vertically integrated electric utility monopoly for many years.
The General Assembly must make it clear that the debate in the future must be about how the benefits of competition through lower rates are to be distributed among various utilities and their customers.
Investors in Pennsylvania electric utilities have long been aware that, while they might expect to recover the prudent costs of their investments in facilities that are not fully used and useful to ratepayers, they could not expect to earn a return on such investments.
www.oca.state.pa.us /tmony/au1996P.htm   (1973 words)

  
 SB669 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
24 "Commonwealth attorney." A district attorney or the district 25 attorney's designee or the Attorney General or the Attorney 26 General's designee.
4 (a) General rule.--The Court Administrator may establish a 5 program for the provision of special interpretation services in 6 criminal actions and in civil actions initiated by the 7 Commonwealth, including petitions for writs of habeas corpus 8 initiated in the name of the Commonwealth by relators, in a 9 court of this Commonwealth.
11 (a) General rule.--The General Assembly shall appropriate to 12 the Court Administrator such sums as may be necessary to 13 establish a program to facilitate the use of interpreters and 14 otherwise fulfill the provisions of this chapter except as 15 provided in subsection (c).
www.friendsfw.org /LEP/Legis/SB669.htm   (2285 words)

  
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By granting home rule the General Assembly of Pennsylvania gave the City complete power of legislation in relation to municipal functions and excluded itself from legislating on those matters that were within the scope of the powers granted.
Since Pennsylvania Courts, applying Dillon's rule on municipal Corporations, denied the existence of a specific power where none was expressed by legislature grant, Councils were unable to legislate on the assumption of the doctrine of implied powers.
As an adjunct to the passage of legislature by the General Assembly or by City Councils the Philadelphia newspapers are indispensable.
www.phila.gov /phils/Docs/otherinfo/newslet/law1.htm   (2525 words)

  
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TITLE Journals of the Senate and House of the second General assembly of the state of Tennessee held at Knoxville.
TITLE Reports of committees to the General assembly of the state of Vermont, March 9, 1778 to October 16, 1801, with explanatory notes.
TITLE Reports of state officers, boards, and committees to the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina.
www.colorado.edu /libraries/govpubs/lsca/authors/assembly.htm   (1085 words)

  
 Industry Leaders Applaud Pennsylvania Governor And General Assembly for Their Support of Steel Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The concurrent resolutions were initially discussed at a meeting among USWA and industry leadership called by Governor Mark Schweiker to discuss the economic crisis created by the surge in steel imports which began in 1998.
Thomas J. Usher, chairman, CEO and president of U. Steel, said, "I wish to personally thank the Governor and all members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly for recognizing the severity of the crisis and sending a clear message that a strong Section 201 remedy is essential.
Pennsylvania's government leadership has recognized the severity of the steel crisis, its economic consequences for our steel communities and their families, and they have acted.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-21-2002/0001673715&EDATE=   (755 words)

  
 PRINTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 4 hereby enacts as follows: 5 Section 1.
10 It is the intent of the General Assembly to direct the 11 Department of Health to establish health standards for the 12 practice of << tattooing>>, body piercing and corrective cosmetics 13 within this Commonwealth.
27 (a) General rule.--The department, in the exercise of its 28 duties under this act, shall have the power to adopt such 29 regulations as are reasonably necessary to carry out the 30 purposes of this act.
www.micropigmentation.org /legal/state_of_pennsylvania.htm   (2542 words)

  
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE BILL No. 1250
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows: Section 1.
6 [(2) "Commissioner" means the Insurance commissioner of the 7 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.] 8 "Bureau" means the Bureau of Professional and Occupational 9 Affairs of the Department of State.
1 Attorney General shall be charged with the enforcement of 2 section 11 of this act and shall prescribe, adopt and promulgate 3 rules and regulations in connection therewith.
www.pctg.org /PALaws/bill1250.htm   (974 words)

  
 The Rise of the General Assembly (from United Nations) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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It was founded in 1900 as the Alumni Association of the Jewish Theological Seminary and was reorganized in 1940 as the Rabbinical Assembly of America; in 1962 it acquired its present name and international scope.
General resource for this state assembly, comprised of the state House of Representatives and Senate.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-225047?ct=   (922 words)

  
 BCEL: Proposed Amendments 2003-1 english
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the General Assembly may by statute provide for the manner of testimony of child victims or child material witnesses in criminal proceedings, including the use of videotaped depositions or testimony by closed-circuit television.
The purpose of this ballot question is to give the General Assembly authority to make laws regarding the way that children may testify in criminal proceedings, including the use of videotaped depositions or closed-circuit television.
This ballot question is limited in that it would not change the authority of the General Assembly to make laws regarding practice and procedure in the Pennsylvania courts other than to give the General Assembly authority to make laws regarding the way that children may testify in criminal proceedings.
www.dos.state.pa.us /bcel/cwp/view.asp?a=1099&Q=441465&PM=1   (961 words)

  
 The Physicians' Cincinnatus Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Pennsylvania, the perversion of the functions of the Boards of Medicine is a cancer in its early stages and must be addressed.
Pennsylvania tax payers must be informed that less than 10% of all the medical liability insurance premiums and Mcare surcharges collected goes to the victims of medical malpractice.
Certainly the public cannot expect a resident of Pennsylvania to invest in a college education, incur medical school costs and special training costs, only to be deprived of a license to practice in Pennsylvania because he cannot afford to purchase the mandated $1.2 million professional liability insurance.
www.cincinnatussociety.org /newletters.html   (15866 words)

  
 PENNSYLVANIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Attached is HB 2100 (attached) is a bill currently before Pennsylvania's General Assembly dealing with open records.
In Pennsylvania, autopsy photos are not expressly made available to the public.
In this case, weather or not you are a constituent of Pennsylvania, you raise a very viable point that I intend to investigate and contemplate legislation.
www.ncaap.com /PENNSYLVANIA.html   (559 words)

  
 Recent bills introduced in the Pennsylvania House and Senate
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 4 hereby enacts as follows: 5 CHAPTER 1 6 GENERAL PROVISIONS 7 Sec 101.
An obligor shall be presumed to be able 27 to make the scheduled payments to repay the obligation if, at 28 the time the loan is consummated, the obligor's scheduled 29 monthly payments disclosed on the loan application do not exceed 30 50% of the obligor's monthly gross income.
The bond shall be a penal bond conditioned 25 on compliance with this act and subject to forfeiture by the 26 department and shall run to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 27 [and shall be for the use of the Commonwealth and] for its 28 use.
www.philatask.com /newbills.htm   (7517 words)

  
 STEEL PRODUCTS PROCUREMENT ACT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The economy and general welfare of the Commonwealth and its people, as well as the economy, general welfare and national security of the United States, are inseparably related to the preservation and development of the steel industry in the Commonwealth and in the other states of the United States.
The Pennsylvania General Assembly therefore declares it to be the policy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that all public officers and agencies should, at all times, aid and promote the development of the steel industry of the United States in order to stimulate and improve the economic well-being of the Commonwealth and its people.
This act is intended as remedial legislation designed to promote the general welfare and stimulate the economy of the Commonwealth and its people and each and every provision hereof is intended to receive a liberal construction such as will best effectuate that purpose and no provision is intended to receive a strict or limited construction.
members.aol.com /RulesPA/73.Cp.25.html   (1026 words)

  
 PA State Archives-RG-25-Series Descriptions-Special Commissions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pennsylvania Volunteers believed to be living on April 1, 1926, and two copies of the Program of Exercises Attending the Unveiling of the Memorial to the Memory of Major General George Gordon Meade on Wednesday, October 19, 1927.
In 1907 the General Assembly established this five-member commission for the purpose of commemorating the service of Pennsylvania troops in the battle that occurred at Cold Harbor, Virginia on June 3, 1864.  The Commission consisted of P. Hodge, Captain of Company “A” of the 55
Rosters of applications received at the Adjutant General’s Office in Harrisburg from Civil War veterans requesting transportation to Chattanooga, Tennessee under provisions of the Act of the General Assembly approved July 22, 1897.  Information provided is name and rank of veteran, regiment and company in which served, and current address.
www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/rg/sd/r25sd1.htm   (2521 words)

  
 Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA - RR History of Washington Co, 1882   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
That company having been incorporated by the Legislature of Maryland at their December session in the year 1826, applied to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for authority to construct their road through this State to or towards a terminus on the Ohio.
In 1829 the engineers of the company commenced the exploration of routes through Pennsylvania, and this was soon followed by preliminary surveys, extending through several years, a very thorough examination being made of a wide range of country, extending from the mouth of Dunkard Creek northward as far as the northern limits of Washington County.
A report on the western part of the proposed route was made by the company's chief engineer, Jonathan Wright, Esq., of Washington County, in 1836, and, being favorable for the construction of the road, it awakened considerable interest and enthusiasm among the people of the Monongahela Valley.
pghbridges.com /articles/railroads/RRhistory_washington.htm   (540 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Medical Society | Pennsylvania General Assembly Moves Forward with Insurance Abatement
Pennsylvania patients realize it's a problem that affects their access to health care.
Today, the Pennsylvania General Assembly voted to extend short-term relief to keep doctors in the commonwealth by extending Mcare abatement for one year.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society thanks the entire Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives for their unanimous votes in favor of this critical measure.
www.pamedsoc.org /Template.cfm?Section=Home&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8024   (192 words)

  
 Neighborhood Networks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whereas the General Assembly of Pennsylvania has failed to raise the minimum wage for workers in Pennsylvania, leaving 850,000 workers making less than $7.15 an hour and failed to heed the wishes of the 80% of the citizens of the Commonwealth who seek an increase in the minimum wage;
Whereas the General Assembly of Pennsylvania has, despite its failure to provide for the general welfare, increased the salary of its members by between 16 and 35 percent, adding at least $11,400—more than a full-time minimum wage worker makes in a year—to the salary of every member.
Whereas the General Assembly of Pennsylvania voted to raise the salaries of its members in the dead of night on the last day of the legislative session, without public hearings;
www.phillyneighborhoodnetworks.org /downloads/petition.htm   (368 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
Attorney General Tom Corbett has filed suit against two Central PA hearing aid businesses and their operators, accused of taking thousands of dollars from older consumers for hearing aids that were defective, did not fit properly and failed to provide the hearing benefits that were promised during the in-home sales presentations.
Attorney General Corbett urged PA consumers to report possible gasoline price gouging and also warned residents about disaster scams.
Ensuring public safety is the Number One mission for the Office of Attorney General, and illegal drugs are the primary public safety threat to our communities.
www.attorneygeneral.gov   (303 words)

  
 Health: Tobacco Settlement / Act 77
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania joined 45 other states in November 1998 in a Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) with the tobacco industry that was estimated to total $206 billion over the first 25 years.
Pennsylvania’s share is estimated to be about $11 billion between the years 2000 and 2025.
Legislation (House Bill 2) was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and signed into law (Act 77 of 2001) by Governor Tom Ridge allocating funds from the MSA.
www.dsf.health.state.pa.us /health/cwp/view.asp?a=186&Q=229582&healthPNavCtr=|   (415 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU of Pennsylvania Calls On General Assembly To Bring Matrix Under Control
The ACLU strongly believes that Pennsylvania’s participation in MATRIX should immediately cease because the Pennsylvania State Police lack the legal authority to join MATRIX.
We think that the General Assembly should take the lead in assuring the privacy of Pennsylvania’s citizens.
The decision to use such a system is just too important to make without involving the General Assembly and the public.
www.aclu.org /Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=15423&c=130   (617 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Watershed Weekly is a publication produced the Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers (POWR) to help watershed groups statewide gain visibility and network with each other.
A new watershed project is spotlighted each week with topics such as stream bank buffer plantings, dam removals, monitoring activities for students, and abandoned mine drainage projects.
Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers • 610 North Third St. • Harrisburg PA 17101 • (717) 234-7910
www.pawatersheds.org /WWeekly   (102 words)

  
 Concealed Carry Reciprocity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Section 6106(b) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania 7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read: 8 § 6106.
In order to carry out this 14 duty, the Attorney General shall negotiate reciprocity 15 agreements and grant recognition of any state's or other 16 jurisdiction's license or permit to carry a firearm.
The Attorney General shall report to the General 11 Assembly within 180 days of the effective date of this act on 12 the agreements that have been consummated pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S. 13 § 6109(k).
www.acslpa.org /reciprocity/HB1844.htm   (297 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
The General Assembly passed Pennsylvania's Unsolicited Telecommunications Advertisement Act in an effort to curb the flow of misleading email, faxes and wireless messages.
The Office of Attorney General has included a variety of resources on this website to help you learn more about Pennsylvania's new unsolicited telecommunications law, as well as to identify the differences between legal and illegal electronic messages.
Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General Strawberry Square Harrisburg, PA 17120 717-787-3391
www.attorneygeneral.gov /complaints.aspx?id=535   (313 words)

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