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The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority is an independent state agency located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Its mission is to improve the quality of healthcare in Pennsylvania by collecting and analyzing patient safety information, developing solutions to patient safety issues, and sharing this information through education and ...
The Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (also known as the Pamphlet Laws or just Laws of Pennsylvania, as well as the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is the compilation of session laws passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1]
The Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are the official compilation of session laws enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. [1] Pennsylvania is undertaking its first official codification process. [2] [3] It is published by the Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau [4] (PALRB or LRB). [5] Volumes of Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes ...
The Pennsylvania legislature passed Act 135 in 2008. The act established property conservatorship as a mechanism to address blight. [ 1 ] The act was designed to provide community members with standing to petition for the right to rehabilitate and take ownership of abandoned properties.
Most provisions of Act 47 initially remained suspended until the termination of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Act (Section 708 of Act 1991, June 5, P.L. 9, No 6). The cities of Erie and Altoona, among others, have narrowly avoided Act 47 designation.
The coverage formula, contained in Section 4(b) of the Act, determines which states are subject to preclearance. As enacted in 1965, the first element in the formula was whether, on November 1, 1964, the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote.
The act also applies to land transferred by the federal government to the states under the Water Resources Department Act. [6] However, the provisions of the legislation do not apply to private lands. The Act states that Native American remains and associated funerary objects belong to lineal descendants.
Pennsylvania Senate Bill 632, often referred to as the Tough Guy Law, became a legislative act (Act 1983-62) that outlawed the sport of mixed martial arts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Tough Guy Law was the first legal precedent for MMA in the United States , approved November 3, 1983.