President of the Pennsylvania Senate

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The President of Pennsylvania Senate may refer to:

  • The
    Governor, and holds the title of President of the Senate concurrently. When presiding over the Senate, the Lieutenant Governor may execute a number of parliamentary roles, including calling the Senate to order, ensuring that the decorum of the Senate is upheld, signing resolutions, writs, orders, warrants and subpoenas issued by order of the Senate. The Lieutenant Governor may also, "...within one legislative day after receipt or adoption, sign all bills and joint resolutions which have passed both Houses after their titles have been read."[1] The current Lieutenant Governor is Democrat Austin A. Davis
    .
  • The
    Speaker of the House.[2] The current President pro tempore is Republican Kim Ward
    .

References

  1. ^ "Rules of the Senate of Pennsylvania". Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  2. ^ "Senate of Pennsylvania". Archived from the original on October 4, 2001. Retrieved November 12, 2011.

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