HB 1712

                                                  PRINTER'S NO.   2109
                 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                     HOUSE BILL
                     No. 1712
                                            Session of
                                              2025
INTRODUCED BY SALISBURY, STEELE, GAYDOS, HOHENSTEIN, McNEILL,
   FREEMAN, HANBIDGE, HILL-EVANS, KINKEAD, MAYES, OTTEN,
   SANCHEZ, BENHAM, KUZMA, PASHINSKI, D. WILLIAMS, NEILSON AND
   CURRY, JULY 9, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
   PREPAREDNESS, JULY 10, 2025
                                 AN ACT
1 Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
2    Consolidated Statutes, in Commonwealth services, further
3    providing for organization.
4    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6    Section 1.     Section 7312(h) of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 7312.    Organization.
9    This agency shall consist of and be organized substantially
10 as follows:
11    * * *
12    (h)    Emergency communications.--
13(1)   The agency shall maintain an integrated
14    communications capability designed to provide to all areas
15    and counties weather advisories, river forecasts, warnings,
16    and direction and control of all emergency preparedness
17    functions within the Commonwealth. The agency shall
1  coordinate the Commonwealth's emergency communication
2  systems, sharing of information and weather emergency
3  notification among the National Weather Service, contiguous
4  State emergency management offices, local coordinators of
5  emergency management, the Pennsylvania State Police, local
6  police departments, private relief associations, offices of
7  the legislative branch and other appropriate organizations.
8  [Additionally, the]
9      (2)   The agency shall establish the sole Statewide
10  telephone number that persons, including county and municipal
11  emergency management personnel, may use to report incidences
12  of radioactive and hazardous materials and other disaster
13  emergencies.
14      (3)   The agency shall also establish the sole Statewide
15  telephone number that offices of the legislative branch may
16  use to directly communicate with the agency during weather
17  emergencies.
18  * * *
19  Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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