PRINTER'S NO. 856
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.822
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY FREEMAN, DONAHUE, HILL-EVANS, PIELLI, GIRAL,
SANCHEZ, HANBIDGE, NEILSON, STEELE, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, KENYATTA,
DALEY AND HARKINS, MARCH 6, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 6, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265) , entitled "An
act to promote public health, safety, morals, and welfare by
declaring the necessity of creating public bodies, corporate
and politic, to be known as housing authorities to engage in
slum clearance, and to undertake projects, to provide
dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; providing
for the organization of such housing authorities; defining
their powers and duties; providing for the exercise of such
powers, including the acquisition of property by purchase,
gift or eminent domain, the renting and selling of property,
and including borrowing money, issuing bonds, and other
obligations, and giving security therefor; prescribing the
remedies of obligees of housing authorities; authorizing
housing authorities to enter into agreements, including
agreements with the United States, the Commonwealth, and
political subdivisions and municipalities thereof; defining
the application of zoning, sanitary, and building laws and
regulations to projects built or maintained by such housing
authorities; exempting the property and securities of such
housing authorities from taxation; and imposing duties and
conferring powers upon the State Planning Board, and certain
other State officers and departments," further providing for
powers of an authority.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 10(ee) of the act of May 28, 1937
(P.L.955, No.265), referred to as the Housing Authorities Law,
is amended to read:
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28 Section 10. Powers of an Authority.--An Authority shall
constitute a public body, corporate and politic, exercising
public powers of the Commonwealth as an agency thereof, which
powers shall include all powers necessary or appropriate to
carry out and effectuate the purpose and provisions of this act,
including the following powers, in addition to others herein
granted:
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(ee) In a county of the second class [ and], city of the
second class, city of the second class A and city of the third
class, to appoint police officers who shall exercise the same
powers that may be exercised under authority of law or ordinance
by the police of the municipalities wherein the Authority is
located, including, but not limited to, those powers conferred
pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D (relating to municipal
police jurisdiction) with respect to the property and enforcing
order on and adjacent to the grounds and buildings of the
Authority: Provided, That said police officers complete the same
course of instruction as is required for municipal police
officers by 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 21 Subch. D (relating to municipal
police education and training) and receive certification by the
Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission as
having completed the instruction. Said police officers shall
maintain the certification as a condition of employment as
police officers for the Authority .
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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