THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY EICHELBERGER, ORIE, FOLMER, RAFFERTY, PICCOLA, VOGEL, BOSCOLA, BROWNE, WARD, WILLIAMS, MENSCH AND FERLO, FEBRUARY 14, 2011

REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 14, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 65 (Public Officers) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in ethics standards and financial

disclosure, further providing for restricted activities.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1103(f) of Title 65 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 1103.  Restricted activities.

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(f)  Contract.--No public official or public employee or his

spouse or child or any business in which the person or his

spouse or child is associated shall enter into any contract

[valued at $500 or more] with the governmental body with which

the public official or public employee is associated or any

subcontract [valued at $500 or more] with any person who has

been awarded a contract with the governmental body with which

the public official or public employee is associated [unless the

contract has been awarded through an open and public process,

including prior public notice and subsequent public disclosure

of all proposals considered and contracts awarded. In such a

case, the public official or public employee shall not have any

supervisory or overall responsibility for the implementation or

administration of the contract]. Any contract or subcontract

made in violation of this subsection shall be voidable by a

court of competent jurisdiction if the suit is commenced within

90 days of the making of the contract or subcontract.

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