PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
Preemption News: West Mifflin on Tuesday took a step toward repeal of a 2009 lost or stolen ordinance :: 11/19/2014
By a 6-0 vote, council authorized drafting a law that would overturn Ordinance 1165.
White Oak took steps on Monday to authorize repeal of an ordinance barring firearms from borough property.
The actions by the borough councils are in response to Act 192, signed by Gov. Tom Corbett on Nov. 6, which permits residents and organizations such as the National Rifle Assocition to seek legal remedies against municipalities that enact their own gun restrictions that exceed state law.
According to CeaseFire PA, Clairton, Duquesne, Glassport, Homestead, Liberty, Lincoln, Munhall, Pittsburgh, West Homestead and Whitaker have laws that require reporting lost or stolen firearms.
Pittsburgh, which requires gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours, on Nov. 17 joined Philadelphia, Lancaster and five lawmakers who are seeking reversal of Act 192.
The Corbett administration said the state Supreme Court has ruled that local ordinances can't supersede state law.
West Mifflin Solicitor Phil DiLucente cited a Commonwealth Court decision this year in a case testing a law similar to White Oak's ordinance.
“No county, municipality or township may in any manner regulate the lawful ownership, possession, transfer or transportation of firearms, ammunition or ammunition components when carried or transported for purposes not prohibited by the laws of this commonwealth,” the court ruled in Dillon v. City of Erie.
Justin Dillon wanted to organize a pro-firearms rally in a downtown Erie park, but a city ordinance barred weapons from being carried there. Erie County Common Pleas Court denied Dillon's request for a preliminary injunction, but the Commonwealth Court overturned that ruling.
West Mifflin Councilman Robert Kostelnik made the motion authorizing DiLucente to draw up the repeal ordinance and for the borough to advertise it for possible action Dec. 16.
“The National Rifle Association is going around suing municipalities,” DiLucente said.
Council president Michael Moses and councilors Michael Olack, Daniel Davis, Joyce Kushner and Scott Stephenson joined Kostelnik in approving the motion. Councilman Steven Marone was absent.
It was one of two ordinances to be advertised for possible action next month. The other is a rights-of-way measure regulating construction of cellphone towers.
