PRINTER'S NO. 856
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 822
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY FREEMAN, DONAHUE, HILL-EVANS, PIELLI, GIRAL,
SANCHEZ, HANBIDGE, NEILSON, STEELE, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, KENYATTA,
DALEY AND HARKINS, MARCH 6, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 6, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265), entitled "An
2 act to promote public health, safety, morals, and welfare by
3 declaring the necessity of creating public bodies, corporate
4 and politic, to be known as housing authorities to engage in
5 slum clearance, and to undertake projects, to provide
6 dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; providing
7 for the organization of such housing authorities; defining
8 their powers and duties; providing for the exercise of such
9 powers, including the acquisition of property by purchase,
10 gift or eminent domain, the renting and selling of property,
11 and including borrowing money, issuing bonds, and other
12 obligations, and giving security therefor; prescribing the
13 remedies of obligees of housing authorities; authorizing
14 housing authorities to enter into agreements, including
15 agreements with the United States, the Commonwealth, and
16 political subdivisions and municipalities thereof; defining
17 the application of zoning, sanitary, and building laws and
18 regulations to projects built or maintained by such housing
19 authorities; exempting the property and securities of such
20 housing authorities from taxation; and imposing duties and
21 conferring powers upon the State Planning Board, and certain
22 other State officers and departments," further providing for
23 powers of an authority.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. Section 10(ee) of the act of May 28, 1937
27 (P.L.955, No.265), referred to as the Housing Authorities Law,
28 is amended to read:
 1 Section 10. Powers of an Authority.--An Authority shall
2 constitute a public body, corporate and politic, exercising
3 public powers of the Commonwealth as an agency thereof, which
4 powers shall include all powers necessary or appropriate to
5 carry out and effectuate the purpose and provisions of this act,
6 including the following powers, in addition to others herein
7 granted:
8 * * *
9 (ee) In a county of the second class [and], city of the
10 second class, city of the second class A and city of the third
11 class, to appoint police officers who shall exercise the same
12 powers that may be exercised under authority of law or ordinance
13 by the police of the municipalities wherein the Authority is
14 located, including, but not limited to, those powers conferred
15 pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D (relating to municipal
16 police jurisdiction) with respect to the property and enforcing
17 order on and adjacent to the grounds and buildings of the
18 Authority: Provided, That said police officers complete the same
19 course of instruction as is required for municipal police
20 officers by 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 21 Subch. D (relating to municipal
21 police education and training) and receive certification by the
22 Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission as
23 having completed the instruction. Said police officers shall
24 maintain the certification as a condition of employment as
25 police officers for the Authority.
26 * * *
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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Statutes/Laws affected:
Printer's No. 0856: P.L.955, No.265