City of Philadelphia v. Commonwealth

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This is an appeal from an order of the Commonwealth Court preliminarily enjoining the implementation of an act of the General Assembly which, inter alia, reorganized the governance of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The Court assumed plenary jurisdiction to resolve the underlying facial state constitutional challenge to the procedural regularity of the statute’s enactment. The primary issue presented is whether the act violates the Pennsylvania Constitution’s single-subject requirement.

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Senate Bill 1100 of 2002 (“SB 1100”) was introduced and finally adopted as a bill…