— The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 5,1978 Lameduck Shapp signs eight bills as last hurrah HARRISBURG (AP) In what may have been his last hurrah, Gov. Milton Shapp signed eight bills yesterday giving the state long-awaited laws controlling flood plains, organized crime, campaign financing and codes of ethics. Hundreds of sponsors and supporters crowded into the stately reception room of the little-used governor’s mansion to watch Shapp sign the measures. The ceremony, the largest of its kind during Shapp’s eight years in office, lasted several hours as group after group bunched in around Shapp to have their pictures taken and to get souvenir pens and certificates. Shapp took particular delight that, even though a lameduck, he was able to sign many of the measures he had called for in his state of the state address to the General Assembly last February. “As a lameduck governor, I’m here to sign more significant legislation than either of my two predecessors,” Shapp said. The reform package was delivered to Shapp by lawmakers anxious to polish their records before the elections. The flood plain bill is designed to hold down property damage in future floods. All communities must join the flood insurance program and enact flood plain zoning. New construction and renovations would be restricted in areas adjacent to rivers and prone to flooding. Renovations could not exceed 50 percent of a building’s market value. The ethics code will force all | Down lays away your entire selection ( T Pl us a 75<P "I \ APSraV" service charge and regular ® JT ™[_ payments Your Christmas shopping is in the bag... with Hills layaway plan. Think .of it as Hills anti-inflation alternative to credit cards. Just 10% down, a 75<P service charge and regular payments can make Christmas shopping a lot easier. You can take advantage of Hills huge toy selection now to avoid the rush later. And you won’t have to lay out a lot of cash all at one time or worry about big January bills. Layaway today! And have your Christmas toys all paid for before you hear the first jingle of a sleighbell. Well store all paid up layaways right up to Christmas Eve. Now you can make your interim' layaway payments at the LAYAWAY DESK or at the FRONT REGISTERS (but remember your layaway slip!) legislators, state officials, and public employees in supervisory positions, to disclose their business and financial interests in 1980. Candidates will have to file those statements in 1979. Under the first election reform in 41 years, candidates will have to make pre election disclosures of all contributions. Candidates who fail to file reports or give false information face penalties of eV, State College-- Hills Plaza-South Atherton Street (Route 322 E.) and Branch Road • Store Hours: lOam-lOpm, Monday-Saturday, Sunday 12prrv5pm up to $5,000 in fines and two years in prison. The package of anti-crime bills will end the 21-year ban on' wiretaps, give investigators access to previously confidential state files, and allow prosecutors to provide key witnesses with better immunity against prosecution. However, the state Senate sidetracked another bill that would have nigs "’’i '',V''.i'^lHibliii'ii'i"' l i'i"'j'l'' = l '''i,i! i i' l||l i ''v 1 , i l '..' I', 1 ' 1 □HZ) created investigative grand juries. ending sohie of the worst abuses in our • Shapp described the ethics code as “an electoral system,” Shapp said. ; important starting point on which Sha ?P’. who ' m his ad- ; succeeding sessions of the General ministration opposed wiretapping, said , Assembly can build.” . . he had reservations abodt re-enacUng:;, .. . ... ■.. . . ••' electronic -surveillance. 'But I He was much more enthusiastic about believe have lo move forward in lhis _ che election reform calling it “one of the direction S(J that the base e , ements ~ f ’ landmark events of the past eight years. racketeering don’t gain a stranglehold ;j “It ... should go a long way toward 7 on our state," hesaid. !i if! l ,, THE ANTI-INFLATION DEPARTMENT STORE DESIGNED TO SAVE YOU MONEY EVERY DAY .ill •nil • o ' -> i -"[ ; K*? '•I'C" -"fro 1! ', r
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