Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced he signed the 15th renewal of his January 2018 opioid disaster declaration, but this time around the declaration isn’t for 90 days and any future extensions will require legislative approval. The Pennsylvania General Assembly’s majority Republican leaders last week sent a letter to Gov. Wolf indicating the General Assembly will not act to extend Wolf’s recently renewed opioid disaster declaration. The letter asked the Governor to send the legislature recommendations for how to address the opioid epidemic without the use of an emergency declaration, which gives governors broad executive powers to issue executive orders with the force of law.
