HR659 of 2014 directed the Commission to produce a report with recommendations regarding the problem of addiction and opioid analgesics.  The resolution also directed that the Commission and Advisory Committee release an interim report of guidelines for prescribing opioid analgesics.  The interim report can be found here.

JSGC will be closed December 25th and 26, and January 1st and 2nd.

Commission staff travelled to Gettysburg to present the "Report of the Advisory Committee on Long Term Care Services and Supports for Older Pennsylvanians" at the annual conference of the PA Department of Aging, PA Council on Aging, and PA Area Agencies on Aging.

The article can be found here.

The JSGC hosted a delegation of government staffers from Kenya.  The east African nation established a bicameral legislature two years ago, and the delegates are touring a few cities in the eastern U.S. to learn about how American bicameralism functions.

The delegates also visited Washington, DC and Annapolis, MD.  The delegates were accompanied by Professor James Utermark and Heather Senecal, from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at SUNY Albany.

Senate Bill 75 extensively revised the law on human trafficking in the areas of prosecution, prevention, victim protection, evidentiary confidentiality, limitation of actions, victim impact statements and classification of sexual offenses.

With the governor's signature, the bill bacame Act 105 of 2014.