Providing for transparency and disclosure of information collected by smart technology devices; establishing the Smart Technology Disclosure Fund; and providing for powers and duties of the Office of Attorney General.
Providing for the voluntary dissolution of the existing form of governance of a municipal corporation located in a county of the second class and the creation of unincorporated districts of counties of the second class; authorizing the county to assume responsibility for the governance of the municipal corporation and delivery of public services to the citizens residing in the municipal corporation through the administration of an unincorporated district; authorizing unincorporated district advisory committees; and making a repeal.
Providing for employee child-care public private partnership; establishing the Employee Child-Care Public Private Partnership Fund and the employee child-care public private partnership tax credit; imposing duties on the Department of Human Services; and imposing a penalty.
Further providing for definitions and for wage rates; providing for additional violations; further providing for powers of secretary, for collection of unpaid wages, for records and reporting and for penalties; and establishing the Equal Pay Enforcement Fund.
In matters affecting government units, further providing for exceptions to sovereign immunity and providing for claims for wrongful conviction and imprisonment; and establishing the Exonerated Individual Community Trust Fund.
In authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence for murder, murder of unborn child and murder of law enforcement officer; in arson, criminal mischief and other property destruction, further providing for the offense of arson and related offenses; in jurisdiction of appellate courts, further providing for direct appeals from courts of common pleas; in post-trial matters, further providing for postconviction DNA testing and for disposition and appeal; in sentencing, further providing for sentencing procedure for murder of the first degree; and, in execution procedure and method, repealing provisions relating to issuance of warrant.
Urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to re-examine the United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's hazardous materials regulations and make any necessary changes that would help to provide better protection to the public and the environment and urging the United States Congress to pass the Decreasing Emergency Railroad Accident Instances Locally (DERAIL) Act to provide for the tightening of regulations for trains carrying hazardous materials.
Urging the Congress of the United States to raise income limits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and either extend or make permanent Emergency Allotments.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on the nutritional value of food, along with the nutrition-related health of incarcerated individuals, in State correctional institutions in this Commonwealth and to issue a report of its findings and recommendations to the House of Representatives.