PRINTER'S NO. 297
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 327
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY GEBHARD, BARTOLOTTA, FONTANA, PENNYCUICK, CULVER,
KANE, STEFANO AND DUSH, FEBRUARY 28, 2025
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, FEBRUARY 28, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in employees, further providing for
3 automatic certification.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2168 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 2168. Automatic certification.
9 * * *
10 (f) Fort Indiantown Gap police officer certification.--An
11 installation police officer at Fort Indiantown Gap under 51
12 Pa.C.S. § 711 (relating to installation of police officers for
13 Fort Indiantown Gap and other designated Commonwealth military
14 installations and facilities) shall be eligible to maintain
15 certification if the installation police officer meets the
16 following:
17 (1) Satisfactorily completed the basic educational and
18 training requirements established under this subchapter.
 1 (2) Satisfactorily completed the minimum number of in-
2 service training hours established by the commission and
3 required to maintain certification.
4 (3) Either:
5 (i) has an active certification on or after the
6 effective date of this subsection; or
7 (ii) was previously certified as a police officer by
8 the commission, which certification lapsed within the
9 last two years, and has been employed, with no lapse in
10 service, as an installation police officer at Fort
11 Indiantown Gap.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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