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1279111 THE2025 GENERALINTRODUCED ASSEMBLYBY OFARGALL, PENNSYLVANIAROTHMAN, SENATEBROWN BILLAND SessionCOSTA, JANUARY 22, 2025 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 22, 2025 AN ACT Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of No.the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general administration relating to correctional institutions, providing for residency of corrections officers.

111 2025 INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, ROTHMAN, BROWN, COSTA, J.

WARD, DUSH AND CAPPELLETTI, JANUARY 22, 2025 AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, OCTOBER 27, 2025 AN ACT Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in general administration relating to correctional institutions, providing for residency of corrections officers.

(A)Notwithstanding RESIDENCY.--Notwithstanding 71 Pa.C.S.

§ 2301(b) <-- (relating to examinations requisite for appointment and promotion), the department may hire an applicant or promote an individual as a corrections officer at a State correctional institution who resides outside this Commonwealth.

(B) PREFERENCE.--A COMMONWEALTH RESIDENT SHALL RECEIVE <-- RESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE AS AN APPLICANT OR AN INDIVIDUAL SEEKING A PROMOTION AS A CORRECTIONS OFFICER AT A STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.

TO DETERMINE STANDING ON EACH CERTIFIED ELIGIBILITY LIST, AN ADDITIONAL FIVE POINTS SHALL BE APPLIED TO THE FINAL EXAMINATION SCORE OBTAINED BY A COMMONWEALTH RESIDENT WHO IS AN APPLICANT OR SEEKING A PROMOTION AS A CORRECTIONS OFFICER AT A STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION.

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