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Pennsylvania State Board of Censors. Pennsylvania Department of Commerce; Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs; These two departments were merged to form the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources; Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Water
Pennsylvania Governor's Office of General Counsel is an executive-level agency in Pennsylvania providing legal services to all executive agencies, boards, and commissions and select independent agencies of the Government of Pennsylvania. [1] It is governed by the Commonwealth Attorneys Act of 1980. [2]
The Pennsylvania State Capitol. The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the bicameral state legislature composed of 253 members: the House of Representatives with 203 members, [4] and the Senate with 50 members. [5] The Speaker of the House of Representatives or their designated speaker pro tempore holds sessions of the House. The President of the ...
By 1994, "Pennsylvania's state pension funds [had] the most active program of in-state investments in the country," according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which also noted that Pennsylvania's pension system had "committed $259.5 million to venture capital funds that invest in the state or in out-of-state companies that create jobs in ...
DGS builds all non-highway Capital projects, procures nearly $4 billion of goods and services, serves as the real estate agent for state-owned land and leases, oversees the Commonwealth vehicle fleet, maintains all state-owned facilities, implements an energy-management and conservation initiative in all state-owned buildings, serves as the ...
The Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) is a pension fund for public school employees in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Eligible members include all full-time public school employees, part-time hourly public school employees who render at least 500 hours of service in the school year, and part-time per diem public school employees who render at least 80 days of service in ...
In 1973, AFSCME concluded a three-year organizing campaign of 75,000 Pennsylvania employees. It was the largest organizing campaign in U.S. labor history. [11] During Wurf's presidency, AFSCME's membership grew from 200,000 to approximately one million. The union eclipsed the one-million-member mark in 1978. [2]
In October 2016, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties went on strike for the first time when negotiations between union and state representatives fell through. Thousands of university faculty members in Pennsylvania participated in the strike, [ 1 ] which lasted Oct. 19–21.