PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 2622
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2272
Session of
2022
INTRODUCED BY MIHALEK, BERNSTINE, COOK, DUNBAR, ECKER, GAYDOS,
HAMM, JONES, KAUFFMAN, KEEFER, MAJOR, MENTZER, MERCURI,
METZGAR, MUSTELLO, O'NEAL, ORTITAY, RIGBY, ROTHMAN, ROWE,
RYAN, SANKEY, SAYLOR, SMITH, STAATS, TOPPER AND WARNER,
JANUARY 21, 2022
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LIQUOR CONTROL, JANUARY 21, 2022
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, prohibiting the Commonwealth from
3 manufacturing or selling liquor.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby resolves as follows:
6 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
7 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
8 That Article III be amended by adding a subdivision to read:
9 F. LIQUOR
10 § 33. Manufacture and sale of liquor by the Commonwealth
11 prohibited.
12 The Commonwealth shall not manufacture or sell, at wholesale
13 or retail, liquor.
14 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
15 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
16 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
 1 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
2 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
3 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
4 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
5 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
6 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
7 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
8 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
9 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
10 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
11 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
12 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
13 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
14 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
15 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
16 primary, general or municipal election which meets the
17 requirements of and is in conformance with section 1 of Article
18 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and which occurs at least
19 three months after the proposed constitutional amendment is
20 passed by the General Assembly.
21 Section 3. The addition of section 33 of Article III of the
22 Constitution of Pennsylvania shall become effective 18 months
23 following approval of section 33 of Article III by the
24 electorate.
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