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PRINTER'S NO. 419
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
425
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, AUMENT, REGAN, FOLMER, GORDNER,
VULAKOVICH, SCHWANK, DiSANTO, VOGEL, RAFFERTY, YUDICHAK,
WHITE, SCARNATI, RESCHENTHALER, BARTOLOTTA, MENSCH AND
STEFANO, FEBRUARY 27, 2017
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 27, 2017
AN ACT
Providing for the complement of Office of Inspector General and
for report to the General Assembly.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Complement of Office of Inspector General.
(a) General rule.--Subject to sufficient funds being
appropriated, the Office of Inspector General established by
Executive Order of the Governor shall hire additional employees
and the employees shall, for a period of not less than two
years, investigate fraud, waste, misconduct and abuse claims
from the Department of Human Services and the Department of
Health.
(b) Number of additional employees.--The number of new
employees hired under subsection (a) shall be sufficient to
increase by at least 50% the total complement of employees in
the Office of Inspector General on March 31, 2017.
Section 2. Report to General Assembly.
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(1) Not later than one year after the additional
employees are hired under section 1, the Office of Inspector
General shall submit a written report to the Appropriations
Committee of the Senate, the Public Health and Welfare
Committee of the Senate, the Appropriations Committee of the
House of Representatives and the Human Services Committee of
the House of Representatives. The report shall include:
(i) The number of total investigations addressed by
the Office of Inspector General, including a breakdown by
new and prior employees.
(ii) The dollar amount of recovery/cost avoidance
per employee, including a breakdown by new and prior
employees.
(iii) The number of investigations filed with the
Office of Inspector General that were not addressed.
(iv) Any additional cost-saving efforts initiated by
the Office of Inspector General as a result of additional
employees.
(2) The report shall be a public record under the act of
February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know
Law.
Section 3. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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