Pennsylvania Act 2019-118 — ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1929 - TRANSFER AUTHORITY OVER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR'S MANSION

Act text

Session of 2019

No. 2019-118

SB 750

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative officers, and of the several administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards, and commissions; providing for judicial administration; and prescribing the manner in which the number and compensation of the deputies and all other assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and commissions shall be determined," in powers and duties of the Department of General Services and its departmental administrative and advisory boards and commissions, further providing for grounds, buildings and monuments in general and providing for transfer authority over Lieutenant Governor's Mansion; and making a related repeal.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 2402(a) and (o) of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, are amended to read:

Section 2402. Grounds, Buildings and Monuments in General.--The Department of General Services shall have the power, and its duty shall be:

(a) Subject to the powers by this act vested in the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings, to control and supervise the State Capitol Building, and the public grounds and buildings connected with the State Capitol, including the State Arsenal, any building or buildings that may have been devised or may hereafter be devised to the Commonwealth within the City of Harrisburg, the Northwest Office Building now occupied by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, the Pittsburgh State Office Building, the Philadelphia State Office Building[,] and the Executive Mansion [and the Mansion of the Lieutenant Governor], and to make, or supervise the making, of all repairs, alterations, and improvements, in and about such grounds and buildings, including the furnishing and refurnishing of the same, and also to have general supervision over repairs, alterations, and improvements to all other buildings, lands, and property of the State, except as in this act otherwise provided:

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[(o) To maintain, for the use of the Lieutenant Governor, the Mansion located on the Edward Martin Military Reservation.]

Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:

Section 2402.3. Transfer authority over Lieutenant Governor's Mansion.--(a) Within 12 months of the effective date of this section, the Department of General Services is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the authority of t he official residence of the Lieutenant Governor, the Lieutenant Governor's Mansion located at Fort Indiantown Gap, through a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

(b) The Lieutenant Governor's Mansion, upon transfer of the property under this section, shall be used for the purposes of supporting Pennsylvania's veterans programs and supporting the National Guard to include current and survivor families.

(c) The Department of General Services shall maintain the Lieutenant Governor's Mansion prior to the transfer of authority over the property under this section, including making or supervising the making of all necessary repairs, alterations and improvements in and about the grounds of the Lieutenant Governor's Mansion.

Section 3. Repeals are as follows:

(1) The General Assembly declares that the repeal under paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the amendment or addition of sections 2402(a) and (o) and 2402.3 of the act.

(2) The act of December 19, 1986 (P.L.1743, No.212), entitled "An act prohibiting the use of certain buildings for political fundraising events; and providing a penalty," is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent with the amendment or addition of sections 2402(a) and (o) and 2402.3 of the act.

Section 4. This act shall take effect in 30 days.

APPROVED--The 27th day of December, A.D. 2019.

TOM WOLF