PRINTER'S NO. 540
No. 500 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY D. S. HAYES, BOWSER AND McCLATCHY, MARCH 6, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 6, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 certain contracts.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 516, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
25 No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," is amended
26 to read:
27 Section 516. Contracts.--(a) No member or officer of any
28 department of the government shall be in any way interested in
1 any contract for furnishing stationery, printing paper, fuel,
2 furniture, materials, or supplies, to the State Government, or
3 for the printing, binding, and distributing of the laws,
4 journals, department reports, or any other printing and binding,
5 or for the repairing and furnishing the halls and rooms used for
6 the meetings of the General Assembly and its committees.
7 (b) No contract which in the aggregate equals or exceeds
8 $100,000 shall be executed by any department, board, agency,
9 commission, independent board or commission, or Commonwealth
10 authority until such contract is reviewed and approved by the
11 House and Senate Appropriations Committees meeting in joint
12 session. Any contract entered into in violation of this
13 subsection shall be void and unenforceable.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days and shall
15 apply to all contracts entered into thereafter.
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