THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY EVANKOVICH, SACCONE, BLOOM, CUTLER, DePASQUALE, DUNBAR, EVERETT, GABLER, HARHAI, HARHART, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, F. KELLER, KORTZ, LAWRENCE, METCALFE, MULLERY, PETRARCA, REESE, ROAE, ROCK, SCHRODER, SIMMONS, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 27, 2012

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 27, 2012  

AN ACT

Amending the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), entitled

"An act providing for access to public information, for a

designated open-records officer in each Commonwealth agency,

local agency, judicial agency and legislative agency, for

procedure, for appeal of agency determination, for judicial

review and for the Office of Open Records; imposing

penalties; providing for reporting by State-related

institutions; requiring the posting of certain State contract

information on the Internet; and making related repeals," in

preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;

and, in access, further providing for regulations and

policies.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 102 of the act of February 14, 2008

(P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law, is amended by

adding a definition to read:

Section 102.  Definitions.

The following words and phrases when used in this act shall

have the meanings given to them in this section unless the

context clearly indicates otherwise:

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"Employee benefits."  Group life, health, hospitalization,

medical service and accident insurance plans or benefits, or

payments made in lieu of such benefits, paid in whole or in part

by an agency and offered generally to employees of the agency.

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Section 2.  Section 504 of the act is amended by adding a

subsection to read:

Section 504.  Regulations and policies.

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(c)  Local agency posting.--

(1)  In addition to the information that is required to

be posted under subsection (b), a local agency that maintains

an Internet website shall post on its Internet website, for

each employee of the agency:

(i)  The salary, wages or other compensation paid to

the employee.

(ii)  The cost of providing the employee with

employee benefits. Cost information shall be segregated

by the type of employee benefit provided.

(2)  In the case of a local agency that does not maintain

an Internet website, the agency shall, at least once each

calendar year, publish the information enumerated in

paragraph (1) in a newspaper of general circulation or a

newsletter or other document disseminated to all households

within the jurisdiction of the agency.

Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.