Post by BigFoot on Oct 25, 2006 19:25:42 GMT -5
This is why it is important to stay in touch with your contractual municipalities:
HOUSE APPROVES SATHER LEGISLATION TO REQUIRE MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
Text of Oct. 23 press release.
Legislation sponsored by State Representative Larry O. Sather (R-Huntingdon) that would mandate that municipalities in Pennsylvania ensure appropriate emergency services are provided to their citizens was unanimously approved by the House today.
Sather's HB2312, HB2313 and HB2314 would amend municipal codes to specifically require municipalities to be responsible for ensuring that fire and emergency medical services are provided within the municipality, and that the municipality be responsible for determining and providing "the appropriate financial and administrative assistance necessary for those services."
HB2312 applies to boroughs, HB2313 applies to townships of the first class, and HB2314 applies to townships of the second class.
Sather's bills were developed based on the recommendations of a bipartisan legislative commission created in 2004 that focused on supporting emergency services and improving the delivery of those services throughout the Commonwealth.
Sather was one of 25 members of that commission, authorized by the General Assembly through SR60. The commission was composed of state legislators, top fire / EMS officials from around the Commonwealth, representatives from boroughs, townships and counties across the state, and key state agency staff.
"A primary objective of that commission was to find ways of enlisting municipal government support of the emergency services providers that serve those municipalities," Sather said.
"Pennsylvania's volunteer emergency responders have continued to serve their communities despite dwindling ranks, insufficient funding, demographic obstacles and other problems," noted Sather, a former fire chief of McConnellstown Volunteer Fire Company and a lifelong member of that company. "The very survival of these emergency services that Pennsylvanians have come to rely on and expect is in jeopardy if we as a Commonwealth cannot adequately support them."
Sather's three bills now must be approved by the Senate before the legislative session ends next month, or else they would have to be reintroduced in the 2007-2008 session.
HOUSE APPROVES SATHER LEGISLATION TO REQUIRE MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
Text of Oct. 23 press release.
Legislation sponsored by State Representative Larry O. Sather (R-Huntingdon) that would mandate that municipalities in Pennsylvania ensure appropriate emergency services are provided to their citizens was unanimously approved by the House today.
Sather's HB2312, HB2313 and HB2314 would amend municipal codes to specifically require municipalities to be responsible for ensuring that fire and emergency medical services are provided within the municipality, and that the municipality be responsible for determining and providing "the appropriate financial and administrative assistance necessary for those services."
HB2312 applies to boroughs, HB2313 applies to townships of the first class, and HB2314 applies to townships of the second class.
Sather's bills were developed based on the recommendations of a bipartisan legislative commission created in 2004 that focused on supporting emergency services and improving the delivery of those services throughout the Commonwealth.
Sather was one of 25 members of that commission, authorized by the General Assembly through SR60. The commission was composed of state legislators, top fire / EMS officials from around the Commonwealth, representatives from boroughs, townships and counties across the state, and key state agency staff.
"A primary objective of that commission was to find ways of enlisting municipal government support of the emergency services providers that serve those municipalities," Sather said.
"Pennsylvania's volunteer emergency responders have continued to serve their communities despite dwindling ranks, insufficient funding, demographic obstacles and other problems," noted Sather, a former fire chief of McConnellstown Volunteer Fire Company and a lifelong member of that company. "The very survival of these emergency services that Pennsylvanians have come to rely on and expect is in jeopardy if we as a Commonwealth cannot adequately support them."
Sather's three bills now must be approved by the Senate before the legislative session ends next month, or else they would have to be reintroduced in the 2007-2008 session.