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 June 30, 2011 (P.L.81, No.18), entitled "An

act providing for the establishment of a searchable budget

database-driven Internet website detailing certain

information concerning taxpayer expenditures and

investments," further providing for definitions and for

searchable budget database.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2 of the act of June 30, 2011 (P.L.81,

No.18), known as the Pennsylvania Web Accountability and

Transparency (PennWATCH) Act, is amended by adding a definition

to read:

Section 2.  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 a Commonwealth agency and offered generally to employees of

the agency.

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Section 2.  Section 3(e.1) of the act is amended to read:

Section 3.  Searchable budget database.

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(e.1)  Compensation.--Beginning in 2013, by January 15, the

website shall annually post all of the following for each

individual employed by a Commonwealth agency:

(1)  Name.

(2)  Position or title.

(3)  Total compensation, as defined in section 303(a)(1)

(i) of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the

Tax Reform Code of 1971, paid.

(4)  The cost of providing the employee with employee

benefits. Cost information shall be segregated by the type of

employee benefit provided.

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