THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY SMUCKER, FOLMER, BRUBAKER, ALLOWAY, TOMLINSON, EICHELBERGER, BAKER, STOUT, BROWNE, RAFFERTY, ROBBINS, WARD, VOGEL, ERICKSON, ORIE, VANCE, PILEGGI, WOZNIAK, CORMAN, O'PAKE, YAW, COSTA, WAUGH, SCARNATI AND EARLL, FEBRUARY 6, 2009

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 6, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, providing for logging of certain

aircraft flights.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 5302 of Title 74 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 5302.  Aircraft for official use.

(a)  General rule.--The department may purchase or lease and

maintain aircraft required for the proper conduct of the

business of the Commonwealth agencies and the General Assembly.

The total cost, including all ordinary and necessary expenses

for the use of such aircraft, shall be charged by the department

to the using agency or the General Assembly. The amount of such

charge shall be paid into the Aviation Restricted Account and be

credited to the amounts appropriated therefrom for the use of

the department. All amounts so credited are hereby appropriated

to the department for the same purposes as other appropriations

out of the Aviation Restricted Account for the use of the

department. The department shall establish and maintain a log of

executive and passenger flights using aircraft authorized under

this section. This log shall be publicly accessible on the

department's Internet website and shall be updated monthly. At

minimum, the information made available on the department's

Internet website shall include:

(1)  Flight date.

(2)  Flight identification number.

(3)  Agency name.

(4)  Aircraft.

(5)  Originating city.

(6)  Departure time.

(7)  Destination city. If a flight includes more than one

destination city, all destination cities shall be identified

for such a flight.

(8)  Arrival time.

(9)  All passengers, including first and last names and

titles.

(10)  Public purpose of the trip.

(11)  Total hours.

(12)  Invoice amount.

(b)  Manner of posting.--All information required by

subsection (a) shall be posted in a way that allows the public

to search the information by the categories enumerated in

subsection (a)(1) through (12).

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.