PENNSYLVANIA: People’s Legislature Votes to Terminate Wolf COVID-19 Disaster Declaration

BY REP. STEPHANIE BOROWICZ

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Responding to the will of the voters, I was proud to vote with the majority of my colleagues this week to FULLY TERMINATE the governor’s COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration. The measure was also approved by the Senate Thursday and is effective immediately.

The termination brings to a close the governor’s ability to tell private businesses if they can stay open or how many people they can have walk through their doors. It also ends his ability to command people to stay at home.

The COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration has been in place since March 6, 2020, and has been renewed five times. At the May 18 primary election, a majority of voters supported amending the state Constitution to limit the duration of a governor’s emergency declaration without input of the General Assembly and to authorize the Legislature to terminate (or extend) a governor’s emergency declaration by majority vote and without the governor’s signature.

The people of Pennsylvania, through the people’s Legislature, have officially vetoed Governor Wolf!