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  Legislative Updates

State Bills we support:
                                         
Bills We Support:
senate bills:
SB 78 (Sen. Greenleaf): Amends the Police Officer, Firefighter, Correction Employee & National Guard Member Child Beneficiary Act, extending education benefits to surviving spouses. Senate Education Committee.
SB 218 (Sen. Greenleaf): Amends the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955, further providing for HIV testing of certain convicted offenders. Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 243 (Sen. Tomlinson): Amends Title 18 providing for the offense of aggravated assault by a person in custody. Senate Judiciary Committee.
SB 343 (Sen. Greenleaf): Act providing for prevention, detection, treatment & follow-up of Hepatitis B cases among state & local law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical techs, ambulance attendants, & health professionals. Senate Public Health & Welfare Committee.
SB 369 (Sen. Logan): Amends the Emergency & Law Enforcement Personnel Death Benefits Act further providing for death benefit eligibility, & repealing provisions of the Municipal Police Pension Law & Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard & Recovery Act. Senate Labor & Industry Committee.
SB 498 (Sen. Stack): Amends the Emergency & Law Enforcement Personnel Death Benefits Act, further providing for procedure and for penalties.. Senate Labor & Industry Committee.
SB 499 (Sen. Stack): Provides for group life insurance to law enforcement officers and for the powers and duties of the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police. Senate Banking & Insurance Committee.
SB 596 (Sen. Orie): Consolidation of decentralized municipal police pensions into a unified statewide pension. Not yet filed.
SB 730 (Sen. Greenleaf): Act providing for the rights of law enforcement officers concerning certain complaints and grievances. Senate Law & Justice Committee.
House bills:
HB 331 (Rep. Readshaw): Amends an act extending benefits to police chiefs or head of police depts. of political subdivisions of PA who have been removed from bargaining units by the PA Labor Relations Board, further providing for salary of nonunion police officers. House Appropriations Committee.
HB 679 (Rep. Reed): Amends Title 71 (State Government) defining "campus police officer"; and further defining "superannuation age". House State Government Committee.
HB 902 (Rep. Denlinger): Amends Title 71 (State Government) further providing for definitions and for creditable nonstate service. House Finance Committee.
HB 981 (Rep. Hutchinson): Amends the Enforcement Officer Disability Benefits Law, extending the payment of the salary, medical and hospital expenses to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources law enforcement officers under certain circumstances. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.
HB 1037 (Rep. Casorio): Amends act regulating appt., promotion, suspension, reduction, removal & reinstatement of employees (with exceptions) in bureaus of police in 2nd class cities; providing for qualify. For appt. in the competitive class of civil service. House Urban Affairs Committee.
HB 1039 (Rep. Moul): Amends PA Municipal Retirement Law further providing for disability retirement of police officers. House Finance Committee.
HB 1179 (Rep. Casorio): Amends the act of May 29, 1956 (1955 P.L.1804, No.600), referred to as the Municipal Police Pension Law, further providing for length of service for pension eligibility. House Finance Committee.
HB 1180 (Rep. Casorio): Amends the Municipal Police Pension Law further regulating pension calculations. House Finance Committee.
HB 1181 (Rep. Casorio): Amends the Workers' Compensation Act further defining "occupational disease". House Labor Relations Committee.
HB 1244 (Rep. Belfanti): Amends Title 42 (Judiciary) providing for law enforcement officers of limited jurisdiction. House Labor Relations Committee.
HB 1246 (Rep. Harper): Amends Emergency & Law Enforcement Personnel Death Benefits Act further providing for death benefit eligibility; & repealing certain provisions of the Municipal Police Pension Law & the Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard & Recovery Act. House Finance Committee.
HB 1267 (Rep. Dally): Amends Hepatitis C law to include Capitol Police, Liquor Control Enforcement Officers with the PA State Police, Bureau of Narcotics Investigators with the Office of the Attorney General, Deputy Sheriffs and Sheriffs. House Labor Relations Committee.
HB 1271 (Rep. Dally): Amends Act 195, providing binding arbitration rights to officers of limited jurisdiction. House Labor Relations Committee.
INFORMATION ON STATE BILLS OPPOSED BY THE FOP:
Any legislation amending Act 111 of 1968, which governs the bargaining rights for many law enforcement officers.
Any legislation that would be a shift from defined benefit to a defined contribution for benefits.
Any legislation that would provide police powers to sheriffs