Weekly Wrap
As the Commonwealth continues to recover from COVID-19, the Governor announced on Friday that eight more
counties would move to the "green" status on June 19:
Dauphin, Franklin, Huntingdon, Luzerne, Monroe, Perry, Pike and
Schuylkill.
Other than watching for counties to turn from yellow to green,
it was a typically busy June week this week, though not for the
usual reasons. We'd normally be buried by budget bills this
time of year, but the earlier passage of the five-month budget due
to the COVID-19 crisis has pushed off the bulk of budget work till
fall. However, we had two big developments this week, the likes of
which we don't typically see.
By Tuesday, both the House of Representatives and Senate had
long debated and finally passed H.R. 836 (Diamond, R-Lebanon), which would
terminate the COVID-19 declaration of disaster emergency. However,
legal and constitutional questions about as to whether or not the
Governor has the authority to veto the
