— 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
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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.
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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
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Shapp described the ethics code as “an electoral system,” Shapp said. ;
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succeeding sessions of the General ministration opposed wiretapping, said ,
Assembly can build.” . . he had reservations abodt re-enacUng:;,
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che election reform calling it “one of the direction S(J that the base e , ements ~ f ’
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