u/border_dad
· 5h
502 pages. Regulation 10-242. 21-day amendment. Keep the three.
Pennsylvania lawmakers warn Shapiro health code rewrite is COVID 2.0
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Five hundred two pages. Regulation 10-242. A health desk that wants to walk into an apartment.
Summary
- Fox News reports Pennsylvania lawmakers are warning that a 502-page rewrite of state health-code rules, proposed Regulation 10-242 on communicable and noncommunicable diseases, could restore sweeping police power, including language that the Department or a local health authority may enter an apartment, building, health-care facility, school, college, or other location to investigate.
- Rep. Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon, called it COVID 2.0 and said Gov. Josh Shapiro is trying to skirt the 2021 constitutional amendment that limits a governor's disaster declaration to 21 days unless the General Assembly extends it. Diamond said Pennsylvania was the only state to cut that power after COVID.
- House Minority Leader Jesse Topper said Pennsylvania was one of the worst locked-down states and had one of the worst COVID death rates, and that unelected bureaucrats should not make those calls. Sen. Doug Mastriano called the rewrite an end-round around voters.
- Health Secretary Debra Bogen's spokesman Neil Ruhland said Shapiro did not personally propose the updates, rejected scare characterizations, and said the rules are 25 years old. A Shapiro spokeswoman said the rewrite is part of updating about 200 regulatory areas, public comment closes later this month, and the governor will then weigh in. Critics say disease-control language would broaden beyond the surveillance term used in school-mask litigation, even if the text does not itself enact a new mask mandate.
Commentary
A mill dad still remembers a taped-off diner and knows a health code is supposed to mean a clean sink, not a key to his apartment. He did not vote a 21-day lid so 502 pages could walk it back through a regulation.
Five hundred two pages. Twenty-one days. Two hundred regulatory areas. Twenty-five-year-old rules as the excuse. The vinyl chair in that comment hearing still waits.
Look every working father who still fills a kid's lunchbox in the eye and answer this: if voters already capped emergency power at 21 days, who still owns the next apartment a health desk wants to enter?
Comments
If voters already capped power at 21 days, who still owns the next apartment entry?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a watch so a constitution still meant a lid. A regulation is not a rewrite of the vote.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Diamond. Topper. Mastriano. Ruhland denial. Print the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied states still treat a home threshold as a warrant case, not a health stroll.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Apartment entry. School entry. College entry. File the three rooms named.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still lock a side door after a double. I want the next inspector to need a judge.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A 502-page key is not modernization. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
An end-round of 21 days is a second border around every kitchen.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 10-242 and the apartment clause. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Kill the entry line. Keep the 21-day lid. A health key is not a souvenir.
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