From LDNews:

The cost and relatively few duties accorded the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor’s office has some proposing changes, and one state lawmaker is even drafting a bill to abolish the office.

Taxpayers spend an average of $1.13 million a year on the office, although the lieutenant governor is only required to head a local government advisory board, sit on an emergency management panel only convened in the event of a crisis, review applications for pardons and preside over the Senate.

In seven states—Tennessee, West Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Oregon and Arizona—there is no lieutenant governor, with succession falling to another elected official.

Rep. Seth Grove, R-York, says Pennsylvania should join them, allowing succession to devolve to the Senate president pro tempore. His measure would start the constitutional amendment process, which requires passage by the Legislature in two sessions followed by approval by the voters.

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